Abdullah Ansari was six years old when his father, his father, Kamal Ahmed Mohammed Vakil Ansari was arrested from Basopatti in Madhubani district of Bihar on 11 July 2006 for being involved in the Mumbai train blasts, killing 189 people.
He told the Indian Express on Tuesday, “I don’t remember much … at that age, the children just know how to walk properly.”
On Monday, nearly two decades after his father’s arrest, the Bombay High Court acquitted all 12 people convicted in the case. It also included a posthumous acquittal for Kamal Ansari, who died in jail in 2021 at the age of 50.
Abdullah said, “The only thing I want to say is, give us back in the last 20 years … only we know what we had passed during these years.”
He said that the decision of the High Court came very late. “What was done to be wrapped by the MCOCA (Organized Crime Act of Maharashtra Control) in two-four years, and then it took another decade in the High Court. My father died in jail.”
According to the official record, Kamal Ansari died in 2021 from Kovid in Nagpur Central Jail, which was during the height of the epidemic.
“What happened was wrong, not only for my father, but also for others whose life was destroyed by this process. Can anyone give us back to those 20 years, or to those 11 other families who were suffering?” Abdullah said.
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In July 2006, 189 people were killed and 824 injured in a series of explosions burst through local train coaches in seven Mumbai.
Kamal Ansari was accused of receiving arms training in Pakistan, escaping Pakistani terrorists on the Indo-Napan border and helping explosives of plants exploding at Mumbai’s Matunga station. However, his son said that Kamal was a worker who was trying to end by doing strange work in Madhubani and nearby areas.
In 2015, the MCOCA court sentenced Kamal Ansari and four others to death in allegations of organized crime, criminal conspiracy, terror and murder, prevention of illegal activities (UAPA), Indian Penal Code (IPC), The Explosives Mustis Act, 1908, MCCA, and Railways Ac, 19899.
After his father’s arrest, Abdullah said “his mother and three brothers ended serious financial difficulty”. The eldest of brothers and sisters, Abdullah now works in a private company in Delhi, as his brother Obedullah. Another brother, Abdul, works in Darbhanga, while the youngest Sufians are still studying.
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