Srinagar Jan 15 (IANS) The mother of a Kashmiri businessman arrested in Delhi on terrorism charges on Monday urged Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to help get her son released claiming he was innocent.
The businessman s family members also staged a protest here.
Businessman Bilal Ahmad Kawa was arrested from the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi on January 12 by Delhi Police and the Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad for alleged involvement in a 2000 attack on the Red Fort.
Delhi Police said the 37-year-old s bank account had been used for terror funding in Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere by the Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Kawa s mother Fatima told reporters during the protest that her son was a genuine businessman holding an Indian passport issued in 2001.
She insisted that if her son was a militant she would never seek his release. She asked Mehbooba Mufti to intervene and ensure that her son was not framed.
According to her Kawa had gone to Delhi for a medical check up. The Jammu and Kashmir Police has said there was no case against him nor does he figure in any list of terror suspects.
--IANS
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