Acquitted of terror charge, Mufti Abdul Qayyum hunts for space for his school

With a whopping 425 students in just two years, Akshardham terror attack case acquit, who had started a school, with a unique model that provides Madrasa with modern education, is running from pillar to post, to get them accommodated in a bigger campus.

A year after being exonerated by the Supreme Court in the 2002 Akshardham terror attack case, Mufti Abdul Qayyum Mansuri opened a school in Kalupur in 2016. Suffah English school, located in Karoda’s pol in Panchpatti, until now was being run in an eight-room building belonging to a nearby mosque; however, due to an increase in the number of students and number of parents who visit the school often, the management is facing difficulty operating there.

Putting students, their parents and residents of the locality in inconvenience, the school approached Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) last year, requesting them to allot one of their schools located in Bakar Ali ni Pol and shut since Gujarat riots. However, while the communication between the AMC and the Jamiyat Welfare Foundation Trust went on for quite some time, there has not been any decision on the case.

Speaking with DNA, Mansuri said, “We had started the school two years ago and had taken a …read more