Infiltration bid in 1997: Court discharges Tunda, 3 others


New Delhi, Mar 5 (PTI): Suspected LeT bomb expert Abdul Karim Tunda and three others, who were accused of helping Pakistani and Bangladeshi terrorists sneak into India in 1997 to carry out terror strikes, were today discharged in the case by a Delhi court which cited lack of evidence.

74-year-old Tunda, one of the 20 terrorists India had asked Pakistan to hand over after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, was discharged by the court which said there was no prima facie evidence to proceed against him.

It was the fourth and final case filed against him by Delhi Police in which Tunda has been discharged. Earlier, an Interpol Red Corner notice was issued against him in 1996.

Besides Tunda, who is currently in judicial custody in connection with terror-related cases, the court also discharged his father-in-law Mohd Zakaria and their two alleged close aides Allauddin and Bashiruddin in the case.

The special cell of Delhi Police had filed the charge sheet against the accused persons for the alleged offences punishable under various sections of IPC, including 121 (waging war against the country), 121-A (conspiring to commit certain offences against the state) and under provisions of Explosives Substance Act, Foreigners Act and Arms Act.

According to police, Allauddin and Bashiruddin met Tunda in 1994 through Zakaria before joining the banned LeT.

It had claimed that on Tunda's instruction, the other three accused helped Pakistani and Bangladeshi nationals, allegedly involved in various terror strikes here in 1997, to infiltrate into India.

A number of Pakistani nationals and others were arrested in 1998 in connection with various bomb blasts in India, the special cell had said. Tunda was arrested from Indo-Nepal border at Banbasa on August 16, 2013. He is suspected to be involved in 40 blast cases across the country.

Zakaria, Allauddin and Bashiruddin were lodged in separate jails in West Bengal in connection with cases lodged there against them and they were produced before the court here after production warrants were issued against them.

Tunda was discharged in three other cases last year. The two cases pertained to a blast in Karol Bagh on October 28, 1997 and two blasts in Sadar Bazaar here on October 1, 1997.

In the Karol Bagh blast case, one person was killed while several others were injured and a bomb was also recovered by the police. In the Sadar Bazar blasts, two bombs exploded in which several persons were injured.

The third case in which Tunda was discharged last year was registered under the stringent provisions of Terrorist and Disruptive Activities(Prevention) Act (TADA) and under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

  

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  • Vincent Rodrigues, Promenade Road,Frazer Town,B'lore

    Mon, Mar 07 2016

    When the case is delayed,the justice is also denied.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sun, Mar 06 2016

    Ever since Kandahar, BJP has only been releasing TERRORISTS ...

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  • Indian, USA

    Sun, Mar 06 2016

    Hi Jossey,
    Please read the article again, it says the Delhi court has discharged the accused due to lack of evidence. Nowhere in the article it says the Govt of India has ordered the release of the accused. It has become a fashion for everyone to bash the GOI for each and every issue. Grow up man!!

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sun, Mar 06 2016

    Indian should be proud to know Delhi is the Capital of INDIA ...

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  • KKR, Mangalore

    Sun, Mar 06 2016

    yes ...Best Example was recently they released one traitor and terror sympathiser from JNU!!

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  • Tomcat , Mangalore

    Sun, Mar 06 2016

    When you have jumla parties ruling and corrupt voters, enemies can do what they what they want and get away.
    Indians not matured to deal with enemy's.

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  • Mw, Dubai

    Sun, Mar 06 2016

    Tussssss...

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  • Vantage Point, mangalore

    Sun, Mar 06 2016

    All the time people can't be fixed as terrorist...There are thousand more still rotting in Jail just under suspicion

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  • Langoolacharya., Belman/Washington,DC.

    Sat, Mar 05 2016

    People,

    Both our Police and Judges need to be educated a little more in law...or terrorists should be tried in Military courts...like in Pakistan...

    ...JH...

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