Soyab and Bilal– both accused in the Delhi Red Fort blast case– were produced at the Patiala House Court amid tight security on Friday upon the expiry of their previous four-day NIA custody granted on December 15.
Delhi Red Fort blast case: A court in Delhi extended the NIA custody of Dr Bilal Naseer Malla– a Kashmir-based doctor– by seven days, and sent Soyab– a Faridabad resident– to five-days judicial custody.
Soyab and Bilal– both accused in the Delhi Red Fort blast case– were produced at the Patiala House Court amid tight security on Friday upon the expiry of their previous four-day NIA custody granted on December 15.
Principal and Sessions Judge Anju Bajaj Chandna allowed the probe agency to grill Naseer in its custody for seven more days, while Soyab has been remanded to judicial custody till December 24.
What are the charges against Naseer Malla and Soyab?
Naseer Malla, a native of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, was arrested by the NIA from Delhi on December 9. The agency has called him a key accused in the conspiracy as he allegedly gave logistical support to Delhi suicide bomber Dr Umar un Nabi.
In an earlier statement, NIA said Naseer knowingly harboured Umar-un-Nabi by providing him logistical support, and is also accused of of destruction of evidence related to the November 10 Red Fort bombing that killed 15 people.
Meanwhile, Soyab, a resident of Dhauj in Haryana’s Faridabad, was arrested by the central probe agency for allegedly providing logistical support to Umar-un-Nabi before the deadly car bombing, according to an official NIA spokesperson.
How many arrests has NIA made in Delhi blast case?
The NIA has so far arrested nine accused, including three more doctors Dr Muzammil Ganaie, Dr Adeel Rather, Dr Shaheen Sayeed and religious preacher Maulvi Irfan. Two others, Amir Rashid Ali, and Jasir Bilal Wani alias Danish, have also been arrested.
On December 18, the agency arrested the ninth accused in the case, Yasir Ahmad Dar, a Jammu and Kashmir resident and allegedly a close associate of Umar-un-Nabi. An active participant in the conspiracy, Dar had allegedly taken an oath to carry out self-sacrificial operations, the agency said.
Delhi Red Fort blast
On November 10, a white Hyundai i20, reportedly driven by Dr Umar-un-Nabi, a Kashmir-based doctor, exploded at a traffic signal near Delhi’s Red Fort, leaving 15 people dead and injuring several others.
Hours earlier, authorities had busted busted a inter-state “white-collar” terror module with links to terrorist outfits Jaish-e-Mohammed and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind and spanned across Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. They seized 2,900 kilograms of explosive.
(with inputs from agencies)
