Kafeel Khan's Detention Under NSA Is Illegal

'...I have carefully listened to the speech Dr Khan made at AMU in December. He has nowhere spoken against any religious community. All that he said was that ‘we (i.e. Indian Muslims) are 25 crore (250 million) people, and we cannot be scared by lynching or making laws’ (“Tumhaari auqaat nahi ki tum humse kuch chheen sakte, hamein daraa sakte, hamein hataa sakte. Hum 25 crore hain”.) Dr Khan was voicing the feelings of many Indian Muslims who have the impression that this government is anti-Muslim. No doubt his speech was strongly emotional, but surely in a democracy, people should be allowed to vent some steam out. I do not see how this speech could attract section 153A of the IPC, promoting disharmony on the ground of religion etc, or section 295A IPC, outraging religious feelings, a criminal offence...'