HC Blast: Court extends custody of j&k youth
The judicial custody of Jammu and Kashmir natives, arrested for their alleged involvement in the Delhi high court blast, was on Tuesday extended by a court till November 22.
Special NIA Judge H.S. Sharma extended the judicial custody of both Aamir Abbas Dev and Wasim Akram Malik after the agency said the probe was still continuing.
Malik and Dev were produced before the court after expiry of their judicial custody.
The investigators said Malik, a Jammu and Kashmir native studying Unani medicine in Bangladesh, was a “key link” in the conspiracy behind the blast outside gate number 5 of the high court on September 7 that left 15 dead and over 70 injured.
Dev, a native of Jammu and Kashmir, has been accused of sending terror e-mails to media groups after the blast. NIA had seized three mobile phones from Jammu and Kishtwar in connection with the case. A metropolitan magistrate had recorded Dev’s testimony under section 164 of the CrPC in an in-camera proceeding. The statement recorded by a magistrate under section 164 bind the accused and any U-turn during the trial makes him liable for prosecution for the offence of perjury.
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