A suspected member of Al-Qaeda outfit of international terrorist Osama bin Laden, held in custody, would be produced before a magistrate on Friday in Mumbai following his desire to make a voluntary confession. Twenty-five-year-old Mohammed Afroz Abdul Razak had allegedly conspired with others to blow up the House of Commons in London, Parliament House in New Delhi and Romal Towers in Sydney. He was on Thursday produced in a veiled cover before additional chief metropolitan magistrate V P Taware, who gave him two days to think once again whether he wished to give a voluntary confession under Section 164 of CRPC.
The magistrate ordered the police to produce him again on December 14 for recording his confession. He will be brought to the court amidst tight security, court sources said. Under Section 164 of CRPC, a magistrate can record confession of an accused only after he found that it was delivered voluntarily and after he explained to the person making the statement that it could be used against him. This position in law has already been explained to Afroz who has been given last chance to ponder over the issue and come before the court on Friday to make a volunatary disclosure.
Afroz has been charged with IPC sections, including 120-B (Conspiracy), 121 (waging war against the nation) and 126 (committing depradation on the territories of power at peace with government of India). He was formally arrested on December 3. Bureau Report