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Akshardham case: two sent to police custody till Sept 26
Ahmedabad, Sept 18: A special Pota court today extended to September 26, the police remand of the two of the five persons allegedly involved in the Akshardham temple attack of September 24 last year.
Ahmedabad, Sept 18: A special Pota court today extended to September 26, the police remand of the two of the five persons allegedly involved in the Akshardham temple attack of September 24 last year.
The court sent the remaining three to judicial custody.
Pota court judge Sonia Gokani remanded Adam Suleman Ajmeri and mufti Abdul Qayoom Mansuri to police custody, while other three -- Salim Hanif Sheikh, Altaf Akbar Mansuri, Maulvi Abdullah, were sent to judicial custody.
Pleading for further 11-day remand, public prosecutor H M Dhruv and Sudhir Brahmbhatt submitted that the accused were "prima facie" involved in a "grave and heinous offence" and that the investigating agency has collected certain "material" during last five days in the case.
They said "contradictory versions" had emerged with the arrest of Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist Chand Khan from Kashmir and it is necessary that these five are interrogated in his presence.
The five, all residents of senstive Shahpur and Dariapur area of the city, were arrested by the crime branch on August 28 for allegedly providing logistic support and shelter to the two terrorists, who had stormed the Akshardham temple and killed 32 people.
Of the five, the two clerics--Mufti Abdul Qayoom and Maulvi Abdullah, were running a relief camp for post-Godhra riot victims in Dariapur last year and had allegedly aided the transportation of weapons to be used in the temple attack.
Bureau Report
Pota court judge Sonia Gokani remanded Adam Suleman Ajmeri and mufti Abdul Qayoom Mansuri to police custody, while other three -- Salim Hanif Sheikh, Altaf Akbar Mansuri, Maulvi Abdullah, were sent to judicial custody.
Pleading for further 11-day remand, public prosecutor H M Dhruv and Sudhir Brahmbhatt submitted that the accused were "prima facie" involved in a "grave and heinous offence" and that the investigating agency has collected certain "material" during last five days in the case.
They said "contradictory versions" had emerged with the arrest of Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist Chand Khan from Kashmir and it is necessary that these five are interrogated in his presence.
The five, all residents of senstive Shahpur and Dariapur area of the city, were arrested by the crime branch on August 28 for allegedly providing logistic support and shelter to the two terrorists, who had stormed the Akshardham temple and killed 32 people.
Of the five, the two clerics--Mufti Abdul Qayoom and Maulvi Abdullah, were running a relief camp for post-Godhra riot victims in Dariapur last year and had allegedly aided the transportation of weapons to be used in the temple attack.
Bureau Report