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AP minority body cites Nazi-style torture of youth

Electric shocks to the genitals, hanging suspects upside down through the night, beating on bare soles and finger nails and thrashing with bamboo fibres.

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HYDERABAD: Electric shocks to the genitals, hanging suspects upside down through the night, beating on bare soles and finger nails and thrashing with bamboo fibres. These are not chronicles from a Nazi concentration camp but the details from the torture rooms of the special investigative team (SIT) of the Hyderabad police, which is inquiring into the August 25 twin blasts in the state capital.

The fact-finding body report placed by the Andhra Pradesh minority commission before the government gives these shocking details. Chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy has expressed concern over the report and asked the home ministry officials to clarify.

Over 100 suspects have been picked up from Hyderabad and neighbouring districts since the twin blasts and most of them kept in isolated rooms and allegedly tortured, says L Ravichander of the Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee of India, who conducted the probe for the commission.

The commission had blamed some police officials of overzealous action in making midnight arrests and conducting midnight raids on the madarasa’s in search of alleged suspects of the blasts. “My son Abdul Kareem(24) arrested on August 30, but produced before a magistrate only on September 8 and was severely beaten up and tortured”, says Abdul Basheeruddin.

But the SIT officials have a different tale to tell. “Almost all of the 110 youth picked up by us were drawn into terrorist activities under influence of jihad or with the lure of vices - women, money and visits to Pakistan and Banlgadesh,” says a senior official of the SIT. They say that 30 of them had been inducted into terrorist groups at various levels - couriers, shelter and utility providers, human bombs in the making and so on. “We are advising the parents of Muslim youth to keep a watch on their activities and life style to prevent them from drifting away into a life of crime and terrorism,” police say.

The police have also begun screening of students from Bihar, West Bengal, Assam and J&K studying at the 500-odd Islamic seminaries in the state.

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