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Lucknow man charged in Red Fort shootout case
Delhi police have chargesheeted a Lucknow man, currently living in Saudi Arabia, in the Red Fort shootout case in which a two-member Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) gang stormed the 17th century historic monument here and killed two armymen and a civilian in December last year.
Delhi police have chargesheeted a Lucknow man, currently living in Saudi Arabia, in the Red Fort shootout case in which a two-member Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) gang stormed the 17th century historic monument here and killed two armymen and a civilian in December last year.
In a supplementary chargesheet filed before metropolitan magistrate A K Sarpal, the special cell of Delhi police named Atharuddin alias Abdullah, a resident of V B Chaupatia in Lucknow, as the eleventh accused in the case.
After the December 22 Red Fort incident, Abdullah went to Jammu and Kashmir where he took part in an attack on a special operation group camp in January this year, police alleged.
Abu Sufian, another militant wanted in this case, was killed during that attack. Thereafter, the accused went to Lucknow from where he fled to Jeddah, the chargesheet stated. Earlier, in three chargesheets police named as accused Pakistani national Arif alias Ashfaq, his Indian wife Rehmana Yusuf Farooqi, Matloob Alam, Mool Chand Sharma, Babar Mohsin Bhagwala, Shahanshah Alam, Devender Singh, Rajiv Kumar Malhotra, Farooq Ahmad Quasid and Nazir Ahmad Quasid.
They have been charged under various sections of IPC, Arms Act and Explosive Substances Act. Ashfaq has been charged under the Foreigners Act too.
The court took cognisance of the offences against Abdullah and committed the case for sessions trial along with the other 10 accused. Bureau Report
In a supplementary chargesheet filed before metropolitan magistrate A K Sarpal, the special cell of Delhi police named Atharuddin alias Abdullah, a resident of V B Chaupatia in Lucknow, as the eleventh accused in the case.
After the December 22 Red Fort incident, Abdullah went to Jammu and Kashmir where he took part in an attack on a special operation group camp in January this year, police alleged.
Abu Sufian, another militant wanted in this case, was killed during that attack. Thereafter, the accused went to Lucknow from where he fled to Jeddah, the chargesheet stated. Earlier, in three chargesheets police named as accused Pakistani national Arif alias Ashfaq, his Indian wife Rehmana Yusuf Farooqi, Matloob Alam, Mool Chand Sharma, Babar Mohsin Bhagwala, Shahanshah Alam, Devender Singh, Rajiv Kumar Malhotra, Farooq Ahmad Quasid and Nazir Ahmad Quasid.
They have been charged under various sections of IPC, Arms Act and Explosive Substances Act. Ashfaq has been charged under the Foreigners Act too.
The court took cognisance of the offences against Abdullah and committed the case for sessions trial along with the other 10 accused. Bureau Report