Will Fight Till the End, Says Slain Advocate’s Son Farhan
Farhan thanks police, seeks a swift trial and maximum punishment for accused.
Hyderabad: Senior advocate Khaja Moizuddin’s son, M.S. Farhan, on Saturday said his family had been going “through hell” following the murder of his father, Telangana High Court advocate Khaja Moizuddin, on May 23. “Since then, we all had sleepless nights. We did not even think of celebrating Bakrid, but the police gave us courage and kept reassuring us that they were investigating the murder,” Farhan told Deccan Chronicle.
Further tragedy struck the family when his maternal grandfather, Gulam Yazdani, a popular advocate passed away on Friday, Farhan said. Moizuddin was supposed to meet Yazdani on May 23, the day of the murder.
Farhan thanked the police for arresting accused Mujahid Alam Khan, his father Mahbub Alam Khan and the other accused in the case.
“Being a lawyer, I will ensure that this trial proceeds as quickly as possible. I will demand that a special public prosecutor be appointed and a special court be set up. I will ensure that Mujahid Alam Khan and Mahbub Alam Khan, along with the other accused receive the death penalty,” Farhan said.
“Even if they approach the High Court, file an appeal, go to the Supreme Court, or send a mercy petition to the President of India, I will fight them all the way there. I will ensure they are convicted in the trial court.”
He urged the police to not trust Mahbub Alam Khan. “The way he was brought in, with bandages on his hands and feet... he is a top-class actor, and everyone in Hyderabad knows it,” Farhan alleged. “He is completely fit… he is perfectly healthy,” Farhan claimed.
He also urged the advocate community against appearing for the Alam Khans. “Many advocates have come forward to give me courage. While the accused have legal remedies under the Constitution and can bring lawyers from outside, local advocates will refuse (to represent them) because my father was a very prominent lawyer,” Farhan said.
He claimed he was receiving calls purportedly from staff at the Anwar-ul-Uloom and Nawab Shah Alam colleges, which are run by the Alam Khans, seeking help as they had not received their salaries for several months. Students were also asking for assistance. He promised to help them and urged them to come out in the open.
Farhan said he would write to the government to take over the educational institutions, turn them into aided colleges and hand them over to committees to run. “These are private Waqf colleges, they are Waqf institutions, Waqf properties. They cannot remain in their hands,” Farhan said.
