New Delhi, July 12: Jaish-e-Mohammed militant Mohd Afzal, a key conspirator in the parliament attack case, today admitted before a Delhi court that he had accompanied a Pakistani terrorist to purchase the ambassador car with which the five terrorists had stormed the parliament house on December 13. When Afzal's counsel during the cross-examination of a witness before designated Judge S N Dhingra put a question that his client had not accompanied the terrorist to his shop to purchase the car, he disagreed with him.

Afzal said he admits to going to the shop of the witness Harpal Singh, proprietor of lucky motors in Karol Bagh and said he did not want the witness to be questioned on this.

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"He is truthful," he said. Meanwhile, identifying Afzal in the court, Singh said he had come with a person named Aashiq Ahmed Khan to purchase the car and had signed as witness.

He said when he heard the news that car number DL-3CJ-1527 was involved in the attack he rushed to the Parliament house and met the SHO of the area G L Mehta who took him to gate no 11 where the car was lying.

Singh said it was the same car, which he had sold on December 11, 2001 and he handed over the documents pertaining to the vehicle. He said he was taken to a place in the parliament house where five dead bodies were lying. "The dead body lying at gate no one was of the same person, who had introduced himself as Aashiq Ahmed Khan and purchased the car," he said.

During investigation it was revealed that one Mohammed alias leader had purchased the car in the fake name of Aashiq Ahmed Khan.
Bureau Report