Booked for terrorism, only wanted to study

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Delhi Riots: Gulfisha Fatima, Booked For Terrorism, Is Quiet, Studious And Has A Strong Sense Of Justice, Says Family

Atiq Hussain was asleep when his phone rang at eight in the morning. A policeman was on the line, telling him that his sister Gulfisha Fatima had been arrested. The policeman handed her the phone. They spoke for ten seconds.

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Twenty five days passed before Hussain mustered up the courage to break the news to their father, a kirana store owner in northeast Delhi, and mother, a homemaker. Both of them suffer from depression, he said.

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“It was a terrible shock but what can one do? What do you do after you stop crying? You try and cope with it. This is the only thing on their minds but they have stopped talking about it.” he said in a recent conversation with HuffPost India. “My father is silent. My mother too but she still bursts into tears all the time,”

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As of date, Fatima, a 28-year-old MBA graduate, has been booked in four First Information Reports (FIR) accusing her of terrorism and murder, and has been held for 132 days in Tihar Jail.