New Delhi, Dec 11: The special court hearing the Parliament attack case, in which four accused including two alleged Jaish-e-Mohammed militants and a suspended lecturer of the Delhi University were tried under Pota, today deferred pronouncement of its judgement to December 16. Special Judge S N dhingra adjourned the judgement for December 16 saying "some more work has to be done on it."

The court, had on November 25 reserved its order and fixed today for pronouncing the judgement. The alleged JeM militants Mohad Afzal, Shaukat Hussain Guru, his wife Navjot Sandhu alias Afsan Guru and S A R Geelani, suspended lecturer of Delhi University, were chargesheeted for the attack on Parliament on December 13, 2001.

All the accused were present in the court except Sandhu, who has been exempted from personal appearance.
The court had framed charges against them for allegedly attempting to kill the vice-president, prime minister, central ministers, MPs and several other VIPs.

Bureau Report