‘My Child Is Innocent’: Mother Of Man Accused Of Plotting Ayodhya Terror Attack

The family of Abdul Rehman, a 19-year-old who was apprehended on Sunday and is alleged to have attempted to detonate grenades at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, has asserted that their son is being “falsely implicated,” potentially by individuals he considered ‘friends.’ Sources indicate that this terror attack was orchestrated by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence.

Rehman’s mother told , “My child is nothing like this. He has never done anything like this… all of this is a lie. He only operates a battery-powered rickshaw.”

“Police did not tell us anything… they just took him (and my husband) away,” she said, “All I would like to say is, ‘please, bring my child back to me. He has not done anything wrong’.”

“He was ill and had a hole in his heart… he had an operation after collecting the money through donations. We (her husband and she) have just one son and three daughters. We do not have anyone else,” the tearful mother, sitting outside her family home in Ayodhya’s Milkipur, said.

Rehman’s father also spoke to the media . He said his son had told him he was going away for two days to meet a friend. “I was not allowing him to leave. I told him Eid is here, and we need money…”

The father said he had last spoken to Rehman on March 2, a day after he left home. After that – the last call was at noon – his phone was unreachable, it had been switched off, the father said.

According to the father, he had been briefly detained and taken to a local police station for questioning. “… then they let me go and told me to go home, and that I would find out what had happened there. When I came back… media was here, and I came to know that he was suspected of carrying bombs. “

“But he told me he was going to Delhi to meet a friend.”

“If someone is guilty… they should be punished. But it should be investigated whether he was falsely implicated after being called to Delhi…” the father said, blaming Rehman’s ‘friends’.

Sources have said Abdul Rehman is the oldest child and used to drive an e-rickshaw.