New Delhi, Sept 12: Jaish-e-Mohammed militant Mohd Afzal, a key conspirator in the Parliament attack case, today told a Delhi court that prosecution has concocted a story against him for the December 13 attack and denied most of the prosecution charges. JeM militant replied in negative to most of the charges during recording of his statements before Special Judge S N Dhingra. To some of the evidence which came against him during the recording of statements of prosecution witness, Afzal said those were fabricated.
He denied having kept explosives and detonators at a flat he rented on December 10 and said those were planted by the police and the landlord was tutored to give evidence against him. When the court said he had been staying in the capital for a long time before the attack and asked about his residential address prior to December 10, Afzal said he had not taken any flat on rent and was staying most of the time with his relatives including Shaukat Hussain guru, who is a co-accused in the case.

Police had alleged that JeM militants had rented flats in some localities of north Delhi and provided safe hideouts for the Pakistani militants who were killed in the gunbattle with security forces on December 13.

Besides JeM militants Afzal and Shaukat, his wife Navjot Sandhu alias Afsan Guru and S A R Geelani, a suspended lecturer of a Delhi University college is facing trial in the case.

Bureau Report