Shahabuddin's Letter to HM Advani, 4 Dec., 1999

Please refer to my letter dated 26 October, 1999 regarding the ISI operations in India. May I draw your attention to the report in the Indian Express (26 November, 1999) on circulation of fake notes. A police officer A.K. Mitra, IGP, Meerut Zone, UP has been reported . as saying that "ISI agents select Muslim dominated areas as it is easier for them to mingle with the local population". Funnily enough, the report does not quote a single Muslim name to support the thesis of ISI operating through Muslims in Muslim dominated areas.

Why can't the police deal with the fake currency racket without communalising it? Why can't the BSF stop smuggling of fake currency notes from across the border?

Why can't the police apprehend the ISI agents and their Muslim/non-Muslim collaborators?

May I request you that in the larger interest of national harmony, you instruct the State authorities not to communalise such issues and deal with them as a challenge to their professional competence?

Harassment of Muslims over Enemy Property NCM: Annual Report, 1998-99

In recent months, a large number of Muslim occupants of old and dilapidated properties in the walled city in Delhi have complained of "harassment" by a local authority acting under the directions of the Bombay-based office of the Custodian of Enemy Property attached to the Union Commerce Ministry. NCM has checked on the matter with the Bombay Office of CEM and also taken it up both with the Union Government and the Government of Delhi.'The Enemy Property Act 1968, passed after the Indo-Pak war of 1965, seems to be wholly outdated ...

Recommendation: Recommended that the Enemy Property Act 1968 be repealed forthwith and all cases pending under it, in Delhi and elsewhere, be wound up without taking any further action under its provisions.