A day after getting custody of Kishtwar youth Wasim Akram Malik, suspected to be the mastermind in the September 7 Delhi high court blast, National Investigation Agency (NIA) questioned him through Saturday to establish his role.
The NIA sleuths are also trying to get him to help in reaching to his brother Junaid, suspected to be a Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militant who planted the bomb outside the Delhi high court.
The NIA also wants to figure out if Malik was a member of the Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami (HuJI).
Malik, a medical student in Bangladesh, was handed over to the NIA in the Delhi airport soon after he landed here from Bangladesh, according to his family. He will now be in NIA custody till October 21 up to when the investigators get to question him, along with another accused and his fellow Kishtwar resident Amir Abbas Dev, who too was given to NIA for seven-day custody and interrogation by the Delhi local court Friday.
Meanwhile, Malik’s father Riaz-ul-Hassan Malik, who reached Jammu from Delhi Saturday, asserted his son is innocent and he has “faith in the investigating agency”. — IANS