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Letter from Tihar
M FAROOQ SHAH
Srinagar, Apr 9: %u201CUssi Ka Shahr, Wohi Mud%u2019daie Wohi Munsif %u2013 Mujhe Maloom Tha Mera Qasoor Nikle Ga (City theirs, pretender theirs; Theirs is the judge %u2013 I knew they%u2019d find a fault in me),%u201D Mohammad Iqbal Jan, rounds off a letter with the couplet, he has sent to Greater Kashmir from the Delhi%u2019s Tihar Jail - he and his co-accused friend, Mushtaq Ahmad Kaloo, have been languishing in since November 2006. Iqbal and his friend were picked up by Delhi police from an old Delhi hotel on 16, November but were shown arrested from old Delhi%u2019s railway station. %u201CThey (Delhi police) abducted us on gun point immediately after we checked out from the hotel, Rest-In, and bundled us in an Indica car,%u201D the letter unfolding the sequence of events, reads. %u201CThey asked us to produce our identity cards which we did. They checked our suitcases. I was carrying Rs. 5,50,000 with me out of which I had paid Rs. 18,000 to Delton Industries at Pritampur. Their eyes lit up on seeing the cash and they snatched it. When I resented, they threatened to kill us.%u201D The letter further reads, %u201CThey took us to Lodhi Colony where a special cell of Delhi police functioned and tied our hands to tables like animals. On 27 November, they told us that we%u2019d be freed and instructed us to take bath and put on new clothes. They brought us to the old Delhi railway station in the night. They removed our jackets
