MEERUT, March 25 -- The family of Badar Khan Suri, an Indian postdoctoral researcher at Georgetown University who was detained on Monday night by US department of homeland security (DHS) reportedly for supporting the Palestinian cause, living in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur have dismissed the allegations levelled against him as "baseless" and have appealed to the Indian government for intervention.

Suri, accused by the US government of working for Hamas and spreading anti-Jewish rhetoric, was arrested outside his home in Rosslyn, Virginia. Suri is the eldest son of Shamshad Khan, a former ward member from Mohalla Banjaran in Saharanpur's Nakur town

"I am deeply troubled by his arrest, but I know he is not involved in any wrongdoing," Khan...