Kerala Muslim Organisations Launch Forum To Get 2008 Bengaluru Blasts Accused Mahdani Released

Efforts have been launched in Kerala to get People Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasir Mahdani, currently an under-trial in the 2008 Bengaluru serial blasts re.leased from jail. He was arrested in August 2010 and has since been in Parappana Agrahara prison in Bengaluru. He is also a suspect in blasts in Surat, Mumbai and Delhi.

A forum of Muslim organisations, Kerala Muslim Samyuktavedi, has been formed to put pressure on the state Government to get Mahdani released.

Malayalam daily Madhyamam reported that the forum members staged a dharna outside the Kerala secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday (18 July) demanding the intervention of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led government to get Mahdani released.

K Muraleedharan, son of former Kerala Chief Minister K Karunakaran and member of the state legislative assembly, speaking at the dharna said the United Democratic Front stand was clear on Mahdani and sought justice for him.

Mahdani was also a suspect in the 1998 Coimbatore but he was acquitted in 2007.