MA RDAN: The parents of the Abdul Wali Khan University students held in the Mashal lynching case have alleged that the police officials have been using delay tactics in producing their challan in the relevant court for indictment.

During a news conference here on Wednesday, they claimed that their sons were not involved in the student`s lynching and were held on false charges.

Members of the Muttahida Mahaz Council, including Maulana Amanat Shah of the JUI-F, Imad Akbar of the Jamaat-i-Islami, an ANP leader and local notables, were present on the occasion.

Sardar Khan, father of detained student Ali Khan, said the police were bound to produce the challan of the suspects in an ordinary court within 14 days of their arrest and in the anti-terrorist court within 30 days, but the law was violated in that respect.

He regretted that 50 days had passed since Mashal Khan was lynched but the challan had yet to be presented in the court against the suspects.

`Why is this delay on part of the police? They should explain reasons without delay,` he said.Fayyaz Khan, whose son Abbas Ali was in the police`s custody, alleged that the police continued to arrest students in the Mashal lynching case and thus, terrifying the entire student community so much that most of them had been reluctant to attend classes since the university`s re-opening.

He demanded the immediate halt to the arrest of more students.

`Most of the detained students are innocent and therefore, their parents and relatives will get them free by involving courts through bail pleas,` he said. Hamad Akbar, a relative of another detainee, demanded that the administration of the Abdul Wali Khan University hold classes and examinations for detained students in jail.

He said the delay in the production of challan against students in the case and non-cooperative behaviour of the police were being forced parents to agitate.

`We will come onto the streets if the police fail to present challan against our children in the court by June 10 and if this happen, the police are to blame for its consequences,` he warned. Correspondent