JUH serves 20 cr defamation notice, seeks apology from Shia Board chief
LUCKNOW: Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind (JUH), one of the leading Islamic organisations in India, has sought an unconditional apology from UP Shia Central Waqf Board chairman Waseem Rizvi for his ‘some madarsas breed terrorists’ remark.
The JUH has also served₹20 crore defamation notice on Rizvi.
The legal notice has been sent by Mustaqeem Ahsan Azmi, president of the Maharashtra unit of the JUH, through his legal counsel Shahid Nadeem Ehsanoor Rahim. “We have sent the notice through registered post to the UP Shia Waqf Board office in Indira Bhawan, Lucknow and will wait for about a week for him (Rizvi) to respond failing which we will initiate criminal proceedings against him,” said advocate Shahid Nadeem. “You (Rizvi) have
›I never said all madarsas are involved in such activities. I was talking about only some madarsas in West Bengal, Assam, Bihar and along the Nepal border.
WASEEM RIZVI , UP Shia Central Waqf Board chairman
issued a statement that not only disparages all madarsas in the country but also adversely affects the reputation of the innocent madarsa children and teachers,” states the JUH notice.
The organisation said it had seen part of the letter written by Rizvi to PM Modi in the Hindustan Times, Delhi Edition dated January 10 and also on NDTV India. The notice said it was highly unfortunate that the chairman of Shia Central Waqf Board made these statements without any data to back his claim. The JUH said that many of the madarsas being run in the country catered to the poorest members of the Muslim community and many of them operate as orphanages, providing shelter, food and education to the orphans.
However, after Rizvi’s letter these Madarsas had become an object of ridicule and contempt and were getting messages, calls and being hounded on the social media.
“I never said all madarsas are involved in such activities. I was talking about only some madarsas in West Bengal, Assam, Bihar and along the Nepal border, in which Bangladeshi clerics teach and which are getting funds from Pakistan,” Rizvi said in his defence.