09-14-2008, 09:45 PM
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14 Sep 2008, 0432 hrs IST,TNN
AHMEDABAD: Mohammed Umar Kabira is actually Ashokbhai Kalabhai on the payrolls of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). He is among those picked up by the crime branch from Juhapura in connection with the July 26 serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad.
A Dalit, Kabira converted to Islam five years ago and works as a manhole cleaner with AMC. He was released on Friday night after being in custody for 38 days, only to be called back on Saturday morning. Police has assured his wife Sumaiya (formerly Parulben) that he would return on Monday.
Sumaiya became a Muslim only after Kabira threatened to divorce her. When she finally converted, the couple changed the names of their children too - Shweta to Kulsum, Saloni to Taslim, Khushbu to Maria and Akash to Abdullah. Police has stumbled upon new conversion cases during the course of their probe.
This seems to have been inspired by Abu Bakar, born in a Dalit family as Jivanbhai Ramjibhai. Bakar works as a masonry contractor and used to convince other Dalits to embrace Islam.
While Kabira embraced Islam soon after the 2002 Gujarat riots, his brother Kishore, also an AMC employee, became a Muslim only a year ago on his brother's insistence. He has changed his name to Zafar. "Now, even our relatives who are still Hindus are ridiculing our decision," said Zafar whose wife Geeta is now Ameena and son Sachin now called Yusuf.
The crime branch has claimed before metropolitan court while seeking remand of the accused that SIMI members were involved in conversions and they indoctrinated these new converts into Jihad. Abdul Rehman Shaikh (earlier Jayanti Parmar) is another person who remained in police custody for a while after the blasts. Shaikh, a scrap dealer who shifted from Shahpur to Juhapura after embracing Islam, was picked up by the crime branch on August 12 and released after seven days.
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14 Sep 2008, 0432 hrs IST,TNN
AHMEDABAD: Mohammed Umar Kabira is actually Ashokbhai Kalabhai on the payrolls of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). He is among those picked up by the crime branch from Juhapura in connection with the July 26 serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad.
A Dalit, Kabira converted to Islam five years ago and works as a manhole cleaner with AMC. He was released on Friday night after being in custody for 38 days, only to be called back on Saturday morning. Police has assured his wife Sumaiya (formerly Parulben) that he would return on Monday.
Sumaiya became a Muslim only after Kabira threatened to divorce her. When she finally converted, the couple changed the names of their children too - Shweta to Kulsum, Saloni to Taslim, Khushbu to Maria and Akash to Abdullah. Police has stumbled upon new conversion cases during the course of their probe.
This seems to have been inspired by Abu Bakar, born in a Dalit family as Jivanbhai Ramjibhai. Bakar works as a masonry contractor and used to convince other Dalits to embrace Islam.
While Kabira embraced Islam soon after the 2002 Gujarat riots, his brother Kishore, also an AMC employee, became a Muslim only a year ago on his brother's insistence. He has changed his name to Zafar. "Now, even our relatives who are still Hindus are ridiculing our decision," said Zafar whose wife Geeta is now Ameena and son Sachin now called Yusuf.
The crime branch has claimed before metropolitan court while seeking remand of the accused that SIMI members were involved in conversions and they indoctrinated these new converts into Jihad. Abdul Rehman Shaikh (earlier Jayanti Parmar) is another person who remained in police custody for a while after the blasts. Shaikh, a scrap dealer who shifted from Shahpur to Juhapura after embracing Islam, was picked up by the crime branch on August 12 and released after seven days.
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