NIA gets remand of Delhi blast suspect

Sep 22, 2011 |

IANS

New Delhi

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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday produced one of the three suspects in the Sep 7 Delhi High Court blast in a court here and got remand till Oct 5.

Abid Hussain, who along with Shariq Ahmed and Amir Abbas Dev, was brought here Wednesday on transit remand by the NIA team from Jammu and Kashmir, was produced in the court of District and Sessions Judge H.S. Sharma.

Hussain was brought to the Patiala house court around 8.30 a.m. and an in-house camera proceeding is on, as per the NIA's request.

The other two suspects are expected to be produced later in the day.

The blast at the Delhi High Court killed 15 people.

Dev, arrested by NIA Sep 16, was remanded in police custody for seven days, while Ahmed and Hussain were arrested Sep 13 and sent to police custody for 10 days.

The accused have been booked under Sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race or language and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony) and 134-A (attack on government servant on duty) of the Indian Penal Code.

NIA has announced a reward of Rs.10 lakh for anybody giving information about the perpetrators of the blast.

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