Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Feb 28: A complaint has been filed in Kadri police station here about murder attempt having been made on Dakshina Kannada (DK) Qazi, Alhaj Twaka Ahmed Musliyar. The Qazi, in the complaint, pointed out to an incident which reportedly happened on February 8, as proof.

Kadri police have registered the case under different sections of Indian Penal Code. The Qazi said that he had visited Ballur in Haleangady at 7 pm on February 8 to deliver religious discourse. He said that a sharp iron piece was found to have been stuck to the tyre of his Innova car. He said that this piece would have been fitted either at the parking spot or on the way through which the vehicle moved after the discourse. He said that this was an attempt to kill him by making sure that his car met with an accident.

"After the discourse on that day, at 10.10 pm, I started back to Kasargod in my car with driver Saif. At 10.30 pm, we reached Nanthoor Junction, where we found that the rear side tyre had punctured. We changed the tyre immediately. An unidentified person, who came that way in a motor bike, spoke to us. We continued our journey thereafter. When we approached the concerned to get the punctured tyre fixed on February 10, we came to know that sharp iron piece had got stuck into the tyre," he explained.

The Qazi said that in his discourses, he always keeps advising people from all communities to practice harmonious coexistence. He said that he also has been requesting people to maintain peace relating to National Register of Citizens. "I had filed complaint in Urwa police station about a television channel from Kasagod of having transmitted recording of one of my discourses by twisting it. Later, there has always been a suspicion that some strangers were lurking me," he said.

The Qazi said that arrangements were made to see that the sharp iron object was got stuck into the tyre of his car in order to murder him. He feels that this is an attempt to disturb harmony between different religions by taking away his life. He said he has suspicion about involvement of local people, people from other states or countries of having worked behind this conspiracy and sought action against them.

General secretary of Masjid Zeenat Bux, Haneef Haji, said that the Qazi has been receiving threat calls from foreign destinations since sometime. He said that twice in the past, the attempt on his life was made by keeping sharp objects under the tyre of the Qazi's car. In this backdrop, he has filed the current complaint, he clarified.

Dr Harsha P S, city police commissioner, said that a case has been registered relating to death threat perception of the Qazi and that investigation has been set rolling in this respect.