29 women including 8 minor girls, who were arrested by the police in connection with the attack on a police station in Hyderabad last night, were remanded to two weeks judicial custody. The women belonging to the Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Shaaer-e-Islam (TTSI) were produced before the 7th additional metropolitan magistrate at his residence on Thursday as the courts were closed on account of Shivrathri. While 21 women were sent to Charlapally jail, eight minor girls were sent to Gandhi hospital for medical examination and remanded to juvenile custody Tension continued to prevail in Saeedabad area of old city where a large number of Burqa clad women barged in to the police station after one youth Moatashim Bi-illah, an engineer student, was picked up by the police from his residence in the same area. The crowd of women led by Moatashim's sister Zille Huma held a protest outside the police station demanding that police should register a case of abduction as the youth was taken by unknown people. After the refusal of the police to do so, a scuffle broke out between the lady police constables and the demonstrators. The women barged into the police station and damaged the furniture, windowpanes and communication sets. As the tension spread in the area, top police officials including the police commissioner rushed to the scene and the women were taken in to custody. Moatashim Bi-illah, who has been arrested by the police in connection with old case of conspiracy, is the brother of Mujahid Islahi, who was killed by Gujarat police in Hyderabad in October 2004. The police had declared Moatashim an absconder in the conspiracy case registered last year, even though he was regularly attending his Engineering College. He was picked up by the police on the day when another terror suspect Raziuddin Nasir was brought to Hyderabad from Karnataka and produced in the court. __
