Updated On: 16 June, 2013 06:23 AM IST | | Waleed Hussain
Do Indian citizens, who are booked under the country's draconian laws, have a chance to fight against injustice? They do, if you keenly look at the work of the Jamiat e Ulema Maharashtra. Since 2007, the organisation has been offering legal aid and defending the accused in terror trials across the country, fighting criticism, accusations and even risking their lives at times, writes Waleed Hussain
Sometimes, empathy, even justice, comes from unexpected quarters. Nestled in the narrow lanes of Imamwada is the operating office of the Jamiat e Ulema Maharashtra, which certainly qualifies as one such place of respite for the wrongly-accused Muslim youth in the country.
