-The Telegraph
Arrested Urdu journalist Mohammad Ahmad Kazmi’s son Shauzab today said his father is being tortured by police.
“Police are torturing him mentally to extract confessional statements from him. My father is innocent and all allegations against him are baseless,” the 21-year-old MBA student told a news conference.
“I met him today and he is very scared. He told me police are creating lot of pressure on him to confess something which he did not know.”
Delhi-based Kazmi, who worked for an Iranian news agency and a radio service in Tehran, was picked up on Tuesday on the charge of criminal conspiracy in the bombing of an Israeli embassy car in Delhi last month.
“My father was picked up moments after he came out of India Islamic Centre in south Delhi around 11.30am. We did not know anything about it,” Shauzab said. “He was questioned for 10 hours and after that a police team arrived at our house at 9.30pm… and conducted searches till 2.30am.”
The Delhi Union of Journalists wants Kazmi, 50, to be immediately freed on bail. “Kazmi is an accredited journalist and an upright man,” S.K Pande, the union general secretary, said.
Delhi police have refused to divulge the evidence against him till they are “doubly sure”.