Uttar Pradesh Cabinet accepts Nimesh Commission report

Uttar Pradesh Cabinet on Tuesday accepted the Nimesh Commission report which probed the arrest of two Muslim youths in 2007 on terror charges.

The decision was taken in a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav here today.

"The report was accepted by the Cabinet meeting today," Yadav told media after the meeting here.

"The government will present the report in the coming UP legislative session along with the action taken report, he added.

Nimesh commission was constituted in 2008 by the then Mayawati government to probe the arrest of alleged HuJI activists Khalid Mujahid and Tariq Qasmi from Barabanki for their alleged involvement in serial blasts at the district courts of Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad.

Justice R D Nimesh submitted his report to the government in August 2012. It has reportedly questioned the police version of the arrest of Khalid and Tariq. Since the death of Khalid during police transit from Faizabad jail to Lucknow jail last month, his family members as well as many Muslim clerics are demanding making the report public.

The UP Police had shown the arrests of Khalid and Tariq from Barabanki on December 22, 2007.

However, Tariq's family had claimed that he was picked from Sarai Meer area of Azamgarh on December 12, 2007, and kept in illegal custody. Likewise, family members of Khalid had alleged that he was picked up on December 16, 2007, from Madiaon area in Jaunpur district.