Meerut: a long and lonely trip through rain and stretching a seemingly endless road that stretches from Saharanpur to the Supreme Court in Delhi for Praveen Kumar.
PhD scholar covers a distance of more than 200km on foot to reach the peak court with a petition to “reclaim the honor” after his name, inaccurate, on a list of thousands of people suspected of being converted by two Muslim scholars based in Delhi.
While Kumar was given a clean chit by anti-terrorist forces (ATS) who picked him up to interrogate last month, those in his village Shitla Kheda did not forgive and endlessly in their persecution of confused men.
“Hindu Nationalists” who proclaimed themselves who had written books about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Minister of Chief Yogi Adityanath had faced social boycott and constant threats since returning home.
“I want the country to know what I experienced,” he told Ti on Wednesday, the days after he woke up to find a “terrorist” written on the door.
“Go to Pakistan,” his message warned him.
On Tuesday, Kumar, a stick officer in the sugar factory, started the “march protest” with a little more than just a backpack filled with the essence and thanks to his family.
On Wednesday night, Kumar has walked 32 km and crossed Rohana Toll Plaza at Muzaffarnagar.
He will spend the night at the train station before starting again at dawn.
The 32-year-old player hopes to finish his journey in 11 days.
“I want the apex court to clean my name.
I hope everything will change after that,” he said.
ATS has knocked Kumar’s door on June 23, looking for ‘Abdul Samad’ after a list of leaking from the alleged Connects has a certificate with Kumar image and information about it.
It was said that Kumar had converted to Islam and now Samad.
The case being chased against the chairman of the Islamic Da’wah Center (IDC) Mufti Kazi Jahangir Qasmi and Mohammed Umar Gautam.
Their names allegedly arose during the interrogation of two people accused of other cases – an alleged “murder of the plot” against Yati Narsinghand Saraswati, the priest’s head from Dasna Devi’s temple in Ghaziabad was beaten after he entered the water.