The National Investi-gation Agency recently sent a team to Bangla-desh to question some medical students from Kishtwar who are studying there. The NIA had recently arrested Wasim Akram, who had also studied in Bangladesh, in connection with the bomb attack outside the Delhi high court.
Sources said the NIA team quizzed students at the Jalalabad Ragib Rabeya Medical College and Hospital at Sylhet, near Dhaka. The NIA team has so far questioned two students, including a girl, both from Kishtwar, about Wasim’s conduct.
Both students were let off as the NIA team, assisted by the Bangla-desh authorities, did not find anything incriminating against them. As the NIA probe so far indicates that it was looking for a youth identified as Junaid Akram in connection with the blast, the agency was apparently unaware that his kidnapping report had been registered in a Kishtwar police station where the blame had been put on an alleged Hizbul Mujah-ideen conduit named Azhar Ali. [Both students have been let off after the NIA team, which was provided assistance by the Bangladesh authorities, found nothing to back their investigation, PTI quoted sources as saying. In a related development, Wasim’s arrest has been decried by his family members who said he was being made a scapegoat. His father, Reyaz Malik, said lies were being spread about his sons. He claimed his son had gone missing in August last year after his matriculation exams, PTI reports.