New Delhi, Jan 05: A suspected Indian Mujahideen
(IM) terrorist, who is an accused in the Delhi serial blasts,
was on Monday remanded to 10 days police custody by a city court
where he was produced after being arrested from Lucknow on
January 2.
Mohammad Hakim, arrested by Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism
Squad, was produced before Metropolitan Magistrate Gaurav Rao
who sent him to custodial interrogation till January 15.
The alleged terrorist, a final year student of a private
Engineering college at Lucknow who was also carrying a prize
of Rs one lakh on his head, was alleged by the police to have
provided logistic supports to his co-accused in carrying out
the September 13 serial blasts in the capital, besides
supplying explosives to them.
Seeking his custodial interrogation, ACP Sanjeev Yadav,
who is the Investigating Officer (IO) of the blasts cases,
submitted 12 other co-accused are still absconding and he was
required to be taken to various places like Lucknow, Azamgarh
and Mumbai for further probe.
"The accused had supplied splinters and ball-bearings
used in making bombs to maximise the casualties. He is to be
interrogated to locate the shops from where he purchased
them," the IO said.
As off now, his interrogation has substantiated the
complicity of accused Ariz, Sadab Beg and Asadullah in the
blasts, he told the court.
Delhi police, on January 3, were granted transit remand
of Hakim by a Lucknow court in connection with the case.
Hakim is also wanted by Maharashtra Police in connection
with a case under the Arms Act and Bombay Police Act, UP ATS
had said.
Earlier, Mohd Saif, another Delhi serial blasts accused,
was sent to judicial custody after his interrogation by
Gujarat and Rajasthan police for his alleged role in the
synchronised explosions in Ahmedabad and Jaipur.
He was brought to the Capital on December 25 from Jaipur,
and was later produced before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate
Kaveri Baweja, who sent him to jail till January 7.
Production warrants for other four accused -- Zeeshan,
Zia-Ur-Rehman, Mohd Shakeel and Saquib Nissar -- in the
September 13 serial blasts case have already been issued for
the that day.
Delhi Police had recently filed two chargesheets against
the five accused in the serial blasts that were carried out in
Karol Bagh, Connaught Place and Greater Kailash Part I here.
Saif was arrested following the Batla House encounter at
Jamia Nagar in south Delhi on September 19.
Another accused Zeeshan was arrested on September 19 from
Jhandewalan area in Central Delhi.
The other three accused -- Shakeel, Zia-ur-Rehman and
Saquib --were arrested from Shaheen Bagh here on September 20.
All have been booked under various provisions of IPC,
Explosive Substances Act and Unlawful Activities (Prevention)
Act.
The serial blasts in the Capital had claimed 26 lives and
injured several others.
Bureau Report