The CBI has given clean chit to two Kashmiri youths who were arrested by the Delhi Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) as terrorists in 2006. 

The special cell of ATS arrested Irshad Ali and Mohammed Moarif Qamar while alighting from a Jammu & Kashmir Roadways bus in February 2006. The special cell had said they were carrying two pistols and two kg of RDX.
 
However, the CBI disclosed that Ali and Qamar were innocents and that they in fact were IB informers, who were abducted by the special cell in December 2005.

CBI also found that the bus tickets produced by the police were not seized from the two men but shown as recovered on February 10, 2006 - a day after the arrests.

The CBI has requested the Delhi sessions court to take action against Ravinder Tyagi, who won a President's police medal for gallantry at this year's Republic Day, for wrongly implicating the two Kashmiri men.
The case will come up for hearing today.

Teachers' protest

Around 100 members of Jamia Teachers' Solidarity Group staged a protest in front of the special cell of ATS office of the Delhi police on Wednesday, demanding action against the officers who framed the two youths.

These startling revelations have brought to light the way in which such 'special' security agencies operate: kidnapping, framing innocents, planting pistols and explosives, and justifying their high-handedness in the name of fighting 'terror'. The Al Badar operation of the special cell is very similar to the infamous Batla House encounter, the protestors alleged.

The group said that the special cell team which conducted Al Badr operation was headed by ACP Sanjeev Yadav and inspector Sharm, who have also led the Batla House Operation. They alleged that Tyagi was instrumental in fabricating evidence against the two Kashmiri youths.

Though arms have been seized in both the operations, no seizure list was made or verified in either cases, raising doubts about the claims made by the Delhi police about the Batla House encounter, the protestors said.

Protestors expressed doubts over the special cell's claims regarding the Batla House encounter. They alleged that while those who indulge in fabricating evidence to implicate innocents are glorified and rewarded, those who raise questions and wish to exercise their democratic right to protest are harassed by the police.