HYDERABAD, April 29: A large number of people, including women and children, staged a demonstration here on Tuesday in protest against the arrest and disappearance of Ali Aijaz, a student of matriculation.

Talking to journalists, Umer Hayat, Aijaz’s brother said that a heavy contingent of police conducted a pre-dawn raid on their house in Masoom Shah Colony on April 19 and took away Ali Aijaz.

He went to many police stations to look for his brother but found no trace of him, he said.

He said that his brother had no political affiliation with any party nor enmity towards anybody. Ali Aijaz was being held incommunicado and the family had been left to pass sleepless nights, he said.

He appealed to superior judiciary, chief minister and home minister, IGP and senior police officers to order police to disclose his brother’s whereabouts and the reasons for his arrest.