Friday, December 19, 2008

Police file chargesheet in GK-I blast

New Delhi: Identify Mohd Atif Amin and Ariz alias Junaid as the ones who had planted the dustbin bomb at the M-Block market
The Delhi Police on Thursday filed the chargesheet in connection with the blast in Greater Kailash in the Capital. In their second chargesheet in the September 13 serial blasts here, the police have identified Mohd Atif Amin and Ariz alias Junaid, as the ones who had planted the bomb in a dustbin at M-block market in GK-I.
While Atif, the alleged leader of militant group Indian Mujahideen was killed in the Batla House encounter, Junaid is yet to be arrested. The police have also claimed in the chargesheet that Junaid is also involved in Terror blasts across the country.
On September 19, Junaid had fired at the police raiding party led by Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma before escaping from flat 108, L-18 Batla House, the chargesheet reads.
The five accused who have already been arrested by the police in the case — Mohd Shakeel, Zia-ur-Rehman, Saquib Nissar, Mohd Saif and Zeeshan — have been charged with various offences under the Indian Penal Code, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Explosive Substances Act. They have, however, not been charged for murder as there were no casualties in the GK blast.
Terming the CCTV footage recovered from GK as irrelevant since it could not identify anyone, the police said they have relied mainly on video clips stored in mobile phone recovered from Atif and on the disclosure statement of accused Mohd Saif, at present in judicial custody.
The data from Atif’s cell phone contained a video clip of the polythene bag containing the bomb in the dustbin at M-Block market, the chargesheet mentions.
According to the chargesheet, the phone records and telephonic conversation among the accused showed that Atif and Junaid had also assisted Mohd Saif and Mohd Khalid in bringing the explosives from Manipal and Faridabad, to Batla House.
“Accused Mohd Saif and Mohd Khalid were received by Mohd Atif Ameen and Ariz alias Junaid at Faridabad railway station. They then brought the explosive material safely to Batla house, Jamia Nagar,” it reads. The chargesheet also reveals the accused used to collect watches for timers, cycle ball bearings for splinters in blasts/IEDs by purchasing them from different cities. Before the serial blasts, Junaid, along with Mohd Saif had gone to the cycle market in Chandni Chowk pretending to be engineering students and purchased 20,000 pieces of cycle ball bearings for Rs 1,800. The pretext was a course project.
The police will file a supplementary chargesheet against Junaid once he is arrested.
They had filed the first chargesheet in connection with the serial blasts on Wednesday.

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