New Delhi, Oct 21 – A section of the Indian media on Friday reported quoting unidentified officials of the country's National Investigation Agency (NIA) that a youth arrested in connection with the Sep 7 blast at the Delhi High Court has said a former officer of the Bangladesh Army was involved in the plot.
The Kashmiri youth, a student of a medical college in Sylhet, was arrested by NIA after his arrival in Delhi from Dhaka earlier this month.
TimesNow TV channel quoted unidentified sources in the investigation agency stating that efforts were on to identify the retired major of the Bangladesh Army after Wasim Akram Malik named him as one of those who had been involved in the plot.
The blast at the entrance of the Delhi High Court killed at least 15 and left many others injured.
NIA had produced Malik in a court in Delhi on Oct 7 and he was remanded to agency's custody for two weeks. He was again produced in a court on Friday and his remand was extended for three more days.
Special NIA Judge H S Sharma allowed NIA to quiz Malik for three more days after the agency told the court that they needed to arrest some more persons linked to the case.
Wasim is the son of a government official based in Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir and he was studying in a medical college in Bangladesh. Wasim's parents, however, said that an incarcerated Hizbul Mujahideen militant, whom they got arrested for kidnapping their other son Junaid in 2010, set the police after their family after the blast in front of Delhi High Court on Sep 7 last. Jammu and Kashmir police, however, described Junaid, who is yet to be traced, as a militant of Hizbul Mujahideen.
Kishtwar came into focus after investigations revealed that an email purportedly circulated by HuJI among media organisations to claim responsibility for the blast had in fact been sent from the town in Jammu and Kashmir state of India.
Wasim was the third Kashmiri to be arrested in connection with the Delhi High Court blast. Earlier, two youths, Aamir Abbas and Abid Hussain, were arrested from Kishtwar.
Talking to journalists, Wasim's father Riaz ul Hassan Malik, an employee of India's state-owned National Hydroelectric Power Corporation, and mother Shameema alleged that their son was being tortured by investigators.
Riaz ul Hassan had earlier claimed that he had received a letter from police authorities in Kishtwar informing him that NIA wanted to question his son in connection with the Delhi High Court blast. He had also claimed that he had made arrangements so that NIA sleuths could talk to his son, who had been in Bangladesh, over telephone. Malik had also agreed to cooperate in the investigation and he asked him to return. His parents had received him at the airport in Delhi and then handed him over to the NIA officials.
Malik's father had in November 2010 lodged a complaint with the Jammu and Kashmir police that his youngest son Junaid had been kidnapped by Hizbul Mujahideen militants.
Police action on the basis of his complaint had led to unearthing of a recruitment module of terrorist networks and three Hizbul Mujahideen operatives, including one Azhar Ali, had been arrested. The police, however, could not trace Junaid.
NIA purportedly started suspecting Wasim's role in the Delhi High Court blast after they questioned incarcerated Azhar Ali in a jail in Kashmir.
Wasim's family claimed that he had been in Kishtwar on the day of blast at Delhi High Court and had not only withdrawn money from bank ATMs but also shopped in the malls, where he might have been caught on CCTV.
"My son is innocent and he had nothing to do with the blast in Delhi," said his mother Shamima Begum, who is a headmistress of a government school in Kishtwar.
Wasim, who had been in Kishtwar on Eid vacation, had gone back to Bangladesh on Sep 9, just two days after the blast.
Due to tacit cooperation between the security agencies of Bangladesh and India earlier in 2009 and 2010, a number of top leaders of insurgent organisations active in northeastern Indian states of Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya and Manipur had landed in the custody of the law-enforcing agencies of India.
In his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Sep 24, Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh had upheld the security cooperation between his country and Bangladesh as an example. "In South Asia, there are encouraging signs of cooperation in the area of security, as exemplified in India's growing cooperation with Bangladesh. Such cooperation is adding to the security of both our countries," he had said.
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