Threat to lawyer over Hadia case

The Kerala Police will question KC Nazeer, a senior leader of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), the political arm of Islamist Popular Front of India (PFI), in the case pertaining to the threats leveled against a senior lawyer who had appeared for the Government in the sensational Akhila/Hadia case.

The police initiated the steps to question Nazeer, who was the SDPI’s candidate in the Assembly by-election held recently in the Vengara constituency in Malappuram district, after they recorded the statement of Senior Government Pleader P Narayanan, against whom threats were allegedly leveled by him through Facebook posts.

They have reportedly found that Nazeer, himself a lawyer, has been making provocative statements and threats through Facebook continuously. Nazeer is accused of making such posts even over the Supreme Court’s order in the Akhila/Hadia case on Monday. A large number of people had shared Nazeer’s posts against Narayanan and had made threatening comments.

The police have approached the Facebook authorities seeking the details of such accounts.

They would also be looking into the issue of how the legal advice the office of the State Advocate General had given to them over the issue of the State of the Human Rights Commission recording Hadia’s statement had reportedly arrived in the SDPI’s hands.

The Government had the other day instructed the police to provide security for Narayanan after he submitted a complaint to DGP Loknath Behera regarding the threats leveled against him through Facebook posts which accused him of being a secret sympathizer of the RSS. The Cyber Wing of the Kerala Police has submitted a report to the DGP in this regard.

The SDPI and its parent organization Popular Front are facing the charge of using illegal methods for converting Hindu woman Akhila to Islam and arranging her court-annulled marriage with Muslim youth Shaffin Jahan. Popular Front’s institution Sathyasarani based at Manjeri, Malappuram is said to be where Akhila was initiated into the process of conversion.