RANCHI: Zadiha Khatun,
mother of arrested Indian Mujahideen operative Manzar Imam, wants to see
her son get married before she breathes her last.
Manzar's elder sister, Razda Khanam, made public the last wish of her mother, who is in a critical stage of kidney malfunction. "My mother wants to see Manzar married before she breathes her last," she said. On Tuesday, when TOI visited Manzar's two-storeyed house in Bariatu, Khatun could barely speak.
Imam is the fourth of the five siblings. "My third son, Badar Imam (30), got married last year. Now it is Manzar's turn," said Imam's father, Md Ali Imam, who is the president of Bariatu Masjid Committee.
The 25-year-old's arrest has come as a shock to his family members, who are trying to cope with the crisis and still believe that Imam is innocent. "NIA claims that he had taken training in Kerala. In fact, he has never gone out of Jharkhand," his elder brother Safdar Imam claimed.
Imam has been a brilliant student and did his schooling from Government High School in Bariatu, intermediate and graduation from Ranchi College and MA from Ranchi University. In 2007, he received gold medal for topping in Urdu for the masters degree.
Imam was arrested on Monday morning at Kanke, on the basis of an FIR lodged in 2008 in Kerala, while he was on his way to Bariatu to meet his ailing mother. He is alleged to have taken part in a was one of the 43 participants in a terrorist training camp in Kerala's Thangalpara jungle in 2008. He is also wanted in several blast cases, including those in Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Pune and Ernakulam.
However, for the last five years, Imam has been evading arrest.
"We are living under the shadow of fear ever since his name came out in newspapers for alleged involvement in blasts. Our dream of seeing him as a professor at some good college has been shattered with his name appearing on the suspect list in serial blasts cases," said Nazar, Imam's youngest brother.
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Manzar's elder sister, Razda Khanam, made public the last wish of her mother, who is in a critical stage of kidney malfunction. "My mother wants to see Manzar married before she breathes her last," she said. On Tuesday, when TOI visited Manzar's two-storeyed house in Bariatu, Khatun could barely speak.
Imam is the fourth of the five siblings. "My third son, Badar Imam (30), got married last year. Now it is Manzar's turn," said Imam's father, Md Ali Imam, who is the president of Bariatu Masjid Committee.
The 25-year-old's arrest has come as a shock to his family members, who are trying to cope with the crisis and still believe that Imam is innocent. "NIA claims that he had taken training in Kerala. In fact, he has never gone out of Jharkhand," his elder brother Safdar Imam claimed.
Imam has been a brilliant student and did his schooling from Government High School in Bariatu, intermediate and graduation from Ranchi College and MA from Ranchi University. In 2007, he received gold medal for topping in Urdu for the masters degree.
Imam was arrested on Monday morning at Kanke, on the basis of an FIR lodged in 2008 in Kerala, while he was on his way to Bariatu to meet his ailing mother. He is alleged to have taken part in a was one of the 43 participants in a terrorist training camp in Kerala's Thangalpara jungle in 2008. He is also wanted in several blast cases, including those in Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Pune and Ernakulam.
However, for the last five years, Imam has been evading arrest.
"We are living under the shadow of fear ever since his name came out in newspapers for alleged involvement in blasts. Our dream of seeing him as a professor at some good college has been shattered with his name appearing on the suspect list in serial blasts cases," said Nazar, Imam's youngest brother.
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