New Delhi, Mar 16: Delhi High Court today dismissed the bail plea of wife of prime accused in the red fort attack case and co-accused Rahmana Farooqi. Justice O P Dwivedi rejected the bail application, saying she could not make out a case for bail on medical grounds besides she was wife of Pakistani militant Ashfaq from whose house incriminating evidence had been recovered. He also noted that Rahmana in her petition had concealed the fact that the trial court had earlier rejected the bail plea.
The court, however, adjourned hearing on the bail application filed by Farooq Ahmad Quasid, who along with father Nazir Ahmad Quasid were accused of arranging funds and arms from Kashmir for Ashfaq's terrorist activities. Two armymen and a civilian were killed in the attack by Lashkar-e-Toiba militants on an army camp in red fort on December 22, 2000.
The FIR had named 22 people in the case while charges were framed against 11. Four of them -- Mool Chand, R K Malhotra, Devender Singh, Matloob Alam and Mohsin Babar Baghwala -- were out on bail. Three of the 11 people named in the fir but not arrested have died in encounters while the others were on the run and had been declared 'proclaimed offenders'.
Shahanshah Alam, Sadakat Ali, Nazir Ahmad Quasid, Farooq Ahmad Quasid, prime accused Ashfaq and co-accused wife Rahmana Farooqi were in custody. All of them except Ashfaq were seeking bail from either the high court or the trial court.


Mohsin Babar and Sadakat Ali were charged with sheltering the prime accused while the other accused were booked for illegally arranging ration card and driving licence for Mohd Arif Alias Ashfaq, a Pakistani national and a LeT militant.
R K Malhotra, Sadakat Ali, Mohsin Babar, Shahanshah Alam and Mool Chand have challenged in the High Court the framing of charges against them. Nazir and Farooq have also done so at the trial court.

Bureau Report