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Owaisi offers legal aid to Hyderabad IS suspects

HYDERABAD: Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday announced his party would provide legal aid toarrested from Hyderabad three days earlier. He said a Hyderabad lawyer has been consulted for the purpose.“I spoke to senior lawyer of Nampally (criminal) courts Abdul Azeem and told him that the families (of suspects) came to me. I told them that we will give them legal help,” Owaisi told a gathering at Hyderabad’s Mecca Masjid.Owaisi, who pointed out that the MIM was the first to denounce the IS, accused the Centre of double standards in dealing with different hues of terror. He accused the Centre of going soft on the accused in the Mecca Masjid and Ajmer blast cases.The MIM chief denounced the IS as murderers, rapists and worse than terrorists and added that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism. “I pray to Allah that he finishes the IS ideology,” he said. He added that Muslims have always been loyal to the country.Owaisi challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to speak out against those who force-fed cow dung and urine to Muslim men in Haryana. “Jokers, cowards from your organization beat them and fed them gobar,’’ he said. “Haryana has your government. Will you condemn this? Why won’t you speak against this? Will the home minister speak against this? Will the CM condemn this? Will they get arrested?”He also accused members of Sangh Parivar of planting beef in Kishanbagh and Saidabad temples in Hyderabad in 2010.