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J&K terror suspect freed from jail after five years, held innocent

By Monitoring Desk
Updated Friday, 20 May 2011 21:05:12 - IST (UTC +5:30)

New Delhi: Imran Ahmad Kirmani’s was released from Tihar Jail after a court held him innocent and the prosecution failed to prove charges against him.
The 29-year-old aeronautical engineer, arrested five years ago by Delhi police for alleged links with the Lashkar-e-Toiba, was acquitted by a court of terror charges that included waging war against the state.
“I am happy to be free at last, but have nightmares when I think about my job prospects. I won’t get a job in this field (aeronautics), at least not in India,” said the young man. “Who will give me a job when they learn that I have spent five years in jail although I have been acquitted of all the charges?” He has since gone back to his home.
Imran is one more addition to a growing list of Kashmiris arrested on terror charges outside the Valley and shown as big catches by the police before being acquitted.
Imran, from Handwara in Kashmir, was arrested on November 15, 2006, from his rented home in Delhi, a year after he completed a three-year diploma in aircraft maintenance at Rajiv Gandhi Memorial College of Aeronautics, Jaipur.
“I worked for nine months at an aviation academy at Gurgaon and was about to get a job at a premier airlines. They (Delhi police) picked me up from my residence and the next day I was presented before the media as a terrorist, arrested from a Dwarka shopping mall, who was planning a September 11-type attack,” he said.
“I was brutally tortured and was not in a position to speak. Even the media did not appear interested in trying to know my story.”
Imran was locked up in Tihar along with “hardcore criminals”. “That was the worst part,” he said. “But gradually I learnt to live there.”
Back home, his father Ghulam Rasool Kirmani, a retired government schoolteacher, and other family members, tried everything they could to get Imran released. The elder Kirmani petitioned then President A.P. J. Abdul Kalam and also his successor Pratibha Patil. “But our ordeal continued until he was released (last week). It has been a long fight and it has drained us financially and emotionally,” he said.
“My family invested all their resources in my release. My sister’s marriage had to be postponed every year but I am hopeful it will be solemnised now,” he said.
After his arrest, Imran was produced before media and projected as Lashkar-e-Toiba operative who was planning 9/11-type attack in India.
They police tried to use Imran's profession to give credence to their claims before media.
Imran was arrested days before he was to join his first job with a private airliner in Delhi
“I had applied for job in different airlines and was in process of joining one of them. I was waiting for airport entry pass to join my first posting. But destiny had other things in store and next five years I had to spent in jail with my shattered dreams”, he said.
Imran is worried about his future as no company would like to hire a person who has spent five years in jail on terror charges.
“It is a sensitive field and no one would hire a person like me again despite my innocence. My career is ruined. If state government could help me to get some jobs I would be more than happy”, he said.
Now he has pinned hopes on the chief minister for help.Chief minister Omar Abdullah said they would look at the case and the circumstances under which he was arrested. “We would would also look at his acquittal.
Imran’s case is not an isolated one. Two accused in Lajpat Nagar blasts were acquitted by Delhi court not before they spent 14 years in jail in Tihar.

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