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World News: One thing that Mohammad Osama always told his friends and family was that his village, remote Jaurasi in Roorkee, had never produced an IAS officer. He would then add: "I will be the first IAS officer from here."
On January 19, he was one of the four young men arrested from Roorkee for being an IS agent hired to trigger explosions at the ongoing Ardh Kumbh in Haridwar and NCR areas. At his modest house in Jaurasi, there are wailing women and men who between sobs said they will take years to "even comprehend" what happened to their "bright boy".
The whole village seemed stunned. Mansoor, the elder brother of Osama, told TOI, "Police are saying the four were tech-savvy. We do not even have a TV set at our home. Osama, who does not have a back account, is being called a terrorist. We have been living here for generations. There has not been a single occasion that our family has been named in any minor dispute."
The inspiration for Osama were his two cousins, Shamsher Ali and Gulsher Ali, both of whom are in the Uttarakhand police. Osama's father Nafeez Ahmed said his son wanted to bring Jaurasi into the limelight by becoming the first IAS officer from the village. "His cousins were the inspiration for Osama," the old man said, weeping. "But he wanted to go a step further. He used to say, 'Dekhna main IAS officer banunga' (Someday, I'll become an IAS officer, you'll see). He was planning to attend coaching classes to achieve this."
The village head of Jaurasi, Abdul Rahim, said he was equally shocked. "No one can point a finger at this family. They have never been involved in any sort of violence and not a single member of this family has a case against their name," he said.
But if Osama had civil services on his mind, another "terrorist", Mohammad Azim, was preparing for the state services. At his Mohalla Bahari Killa house in Landuru, there is a small temple inside. Everyone in the areas knows it as the "Muslim house with a temple". The third suspect, Mohammad Meraj, wanted to become a doctor of Ayurveda, and the fourth, Akhlaq-ur-Rehman, the supposed 'mastermind'. was doing his engineering from a polytechnic at Roorkee.
Azim's father, Abdul Sattar, according to locals here, is the first Muslim post-graduate from the area. He had twice cleared the written exam for state public services, failing at the interview stage. "We have a small temple in our house," he told TOI. "Though not many people come here to offer prayers, we have safeguarded it for decades. Two years back, we got a canopy made to cover it so that the structure is not damaged. How can we even think our son is involved in an anti-national activity?"
Azim's elder sister is preparing for PCS (Provincial Cicil Services) exams and said her brother wanted to follow suit. "I had a dream, to become a PCS officer," Sattar said. "But I could not make it. Azim wanted to make my dream come true. My son would often talk about a 'bright future and achieving new heights'.
Akhlaq-ur-Rehman, the "leader" of the group, aspired for a government job. His elder brother Kamrul is a teacher in a private school and younger brother Danish is in class IX. "He scored 50% in Class X and just wanted a government job to supplement the family's income. Our father has a tyre puncture-repair shop," Kamrul said. The two-storey house of Akhlaq is under-construction in Bhagwanpur Chandanpur village. After coming back from the polytechnic, he would head straight to see how the work was going on. That was his daily routine.
"This village has a population of 15,000, with about 40% Hindus and 60% Muslims. There has never been a feeling of hatred in the people. Not a single such case has been reported here. Therefore the logic that Akhlaq has been misled and brain-washed seems unlikely," said Akhlaq's uncle Alim-ud-din. "I don't know what the police have found out. I can't talk about that. But these boys are the most unlikely candidates to be terrorists. They just wanted to do well in life and help their parents."
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World News: One thing that Mohammad Osama always told his friends and family was that his village, remote Jaurasi in Roorkee, had never produced an IAS officer. He would then add: "I will be the first IAS officer from here."
On January 19, he was one of the four young men arrested from Roorkee for being an IS agent hired to trigger explosions at the ongoing Ardh Kumbh in Haridwar and NCR areas. At his modest house in Jaurasi, there are wailing women and men who between sobs said they will take years to "even comprehend" what happened to their "bright boy".
The whole village seemed stunned. Mansoor, the elder brother of Osama, told TOI, "Police are saying the four were tech-savvy. We do not even have a TV set at our home. Osama, who does not have a back account, is being called a terrorist. We have been living here for generations. There has not been a single occasion that our family has been named in any minor dispute."
The inspiration for Osama were his two cousins, Shamsher Ali and Gulsher Ali, both of whom are in the Uttarakhand police. Osama's father Nafeez Ahmed said his son wanted to bring Jaurasi into the limelight by becoming the first IAS officer from the village. "His cousins were the inspiration for Osama," the old man said, weeping. "But he wanted to go a step further. He used to say, 'Dekhna main IAS officer banunga' (Someday, I'll become an IAS officer, you'll see). He was planning to attend coaching classes to achieve this."
The village head of Jaurasi, Abdul Rahim, said he was equally shocked. "No one can point a finger at this family. They have never been involved in any sort of violence and not a single member of this family has a case against their name," he said.
But if Osama had civil services on his mind, another "terrorist", Mohammad Azim, was preparing for the state services. At his Mohalla Bahari Killa house in Landuru, there is a small temple inside. Everyone in the areas knows it as the "Muslim house with a temple". The third suspect, Mohammad Meraj, wanted to become a doctor of Ayurveda, and the fourth, Akhlaq-ur-Rehman, the supposed 'mastermind'. was doing his engineering from a polytechnic at Roorkee.
Azim's father, Abdul Sattar, according to locals here, is the first Muslim post-graduate from the area. He had twice cleared the written exam for state public services, failing at the interview stage. "We have a small temple in our house," he told TOI. "Though not many people come here to offer prayers, we have safeguarded it for decades. Two years back, we got a canopy made to cover it so that the structure is not damaged. How can we even think our son is involved in an anti-national activity?"
Azim's elder sister is preparing for PCS (Provincial Cicil Services) exams and said her brother wanted to follow suit. "I had a dream, to become a PCS officer," Sattar said. "But I could not make it. Azim wanted to make my dream come true. My son would often talk about a 'bright future and achieving new heights'.
"This village has a population of 15,000, with about 40% Hindus and 60% Muslims. There has never been a feeling of hatred in the people. Not a single such case has been reported here. Therefore the logic that Akhlaq has been misled and brain-washed seems unlikely," said Akhlaq's uncle Alim-ud-din. "I don't know what the police have found out. I can't talk about that. But these boys are the most unlikely candidates to be terrorists. They just wanted to do well in life and help their parents."
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