{"id":187851,"date":"2025-11-13T10:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=187851"},"modified":"2025-11-13T18:13:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:13:39","slug":"family-of-detained-kashmiri-imam-rejects-allegations-as-absolutely-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/11\/13\/family-of-detained-kashmiri-imam-rejects-allegations-as-absolutely-wrong.html","title":{"rendered":"Family of detained Imam rejects allegations as \u2018absolutely wrong\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-187852\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/36.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nuh, Haryana: The family of arrested Imam Mohammad Ishityaq has strongly rejected the Indian police\u2019s allegations linking him to what they call a \u201cwhite-collar terror\u201d case, describing the charges as false, politically motivated, and part of a broader campaign to malign innocent Kashmiris and Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, Imam\u2019s brother, Mohammad Shahbad, while talking to the media, said the accusations against Ishityaq were \u201cabsolutely wrong\u201d and without any factual basis. \u201cHe has been the Imam of the Al-Falah University mosque for the past 20 years. He lives there with his family, and we frequently visit each other,\u201d Shahbad said.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that his brother had rented out a room on his property in Fatehpur to a doctor, later identified as Dr. Muzammil, and had no knowledge of his activities. \u201cNo one keeps an eye on the day-to-day activities of tenants. The media is now claiming that weapons and explosives were recovered from that rented room. The accusations against my brother are false and fabricated. Our family has always lived an honourable life. All my brothers are Imams,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Observers say this is yet another case in a growing pattern where Indian authorities hastily implicate professionals, religious figures, and ordinary Kashmiris in terror cases to sustain the narrative of a \u201cterror network\u201d extending from occupied Kashmir to India.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called probe, led by India\u2019s National Investigation Agency (NIA), has expanded following the car explosion near Delhi\u2019s Red Fort. Indian agencies have since launched a sweeping crackdown, arresting doctors and religious figures, and raiding institutions like Al-Falah University and its medical college in Faridabad. The NIA claims to have recovered explosives from the university premises and accuses two doctors\u2014Dr. Muzammil and Dr. Umar\u2014of being part of a Jaish-e-Mohammad module. However, rights activists note that such accusations often rely on planted evidence, coerced confessions, and media trials that demonize Muslims and Kashmiris long before any judicial process begins.<\/p>\n<p>The Modi regime\u2019s continued use of such cases to stigmatize Kashmiris, they added, reflects the deep-rooted bias of India\u2019s security and media apparatus that equates Kashmiri identity with suspicion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuh, Haryana: The family of arrested Imam Mohammad Ishityaq has strongly rejected the Indian police\u2019s allegations linking him to what they call a \u201cwhite-collar terror\u201d case, describing the charges as false, politically motivated, and part of a broader campaign to malign innocent Kashmiris and Muslims. According to Kashmir Media Service, Imam\u2019s brother, Mohammad Shahbad, while &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":187852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-occupied-jammu-and-kashmir"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/36.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187909,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187851\/revisions\/187909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}