Thirty-two-year-old Mohammad Muqueemuddin Yaser, who was acquitted by an Indore sessions court in the Mecca Masjid blast case on  September 1, recalls how the Hyderabad police tortured him while he was in custody.

Yaser and his brother Mohammad Baleeghuddin Jaber (27), both sons of Maulna Naseeruddin (63), an Islamic cleric, have spent close to four years in Madhya Pradesh jails on charges of "waging war against India" under jihadi influence.

"For the Hyderabad police, sending us to Gujarat, Karnataka or Madhya Pradesh is equal to sending us to Kalapani (Andaman Islands). This is one way of punishing us for the crime we have not committed," said Yaser.

"The Hyderabad police arrested me on 18 July 2008 and Jaber on 1 September 2008 in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case. They were aware that they did not have any evidence against several Muslim youth they had detained. Still, they detained us because we were the children of Naseeruddin, against whom they had a grudge," Yaser added.

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