New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) chargesheet on last year’s Delhi High Court blast says key conspirator Wasim Akram Malik, a medical student, was deeply influenced by slain al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and identified with Qaida number 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri as the Egyptian is a trained doctor.
The NIA in a press release said that Wasim harboured strong feelings about the perceived discrimination against Muslims in India and had taken to reading jihadi literature and books on Afghanistan-Pakistan problems apart from internet literature on Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar.
The agency has said Malik found the al-Qaida leaders’ austere ways a major inspiration and was driven to make sacrifices for a “Muslim cause”. Apart from Laden, he found Zawahiri, who is believed to be leading al-Qaida now, to be a role model.
The agency claimed that Malik, a student of MBBS at Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College and Hospital at Sylhet in Bangladesh, had as a self-motivated jihadist first got entangled in terror in 2005 when he came in contact with Jaish-e-Mohammed commander Salim Wani.
The NIA on Tuesday filed a chargesheet against six persons, including the jailed Malik and his ‘absconding’ younger brother Junaid Malik, for allegedly carrying out blast outside the Delhi High Court with the help of two Pakistani bombers, Abu Saifulla and Abu Bilal, on September 7, 2011.
The NIA has cited strong technical evidence in terms of emails and phone call records to nail the accused. “We also have 200 witnesses supporting the case,” said NIA DIG Mukesh Singh. The witness statements include the confessions made by Malik and Dev in front of a magistrate. The agency has also made official requests to the USA for providing evidence (email trails, IP addresses) under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT).
Calling the elder Malik a “leaderless jihadist” and mastermind of the blast, the NIA claimed that he had planned the conspiracy with three Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists, including his younger brother, in an attempt to threaten the judiciary and get the death sentence of Parliament House attack convict Afzal Guru repealed.
The 1,062-page chargesheet, filed in the Patiala House Court, has named two other jailed Kashmiris – Amir Abbas Dev and Abid Hussain Bhawani – and absconders Shakir Hussain Seikh alias Chota Hafiz and Amir Kamal. Saifulla and Bilal are also absconders. The NIA will file a supplementary chargesheet against the duo in due course.
The NIA in a press release said that Wasim harboured strong feelings about the perceived discrimination against Muslims in India and had taken to reading jihadi literature and books on Afghanistan-Pakistan problems apart from internet literature on Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar.
The agency has said Malik found the al-Qaida leaders’ austere ways a major inspiration and was driven to make sacrifices for a “Muslim cause”. Apart from Laden, he found Zawahiri, who is believed to be leading al-Qaida now, to be a role model.
The agency claimed that Malik, a student of MBBS at Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College and Hospital at Sylhet in Bangladesh, had as a self-motivated jihadist first got entangled in terror in 2005 when he came in contact with Jaish-e-Mohammed commander Salim Wani.
The NIA on Tuesday filed a chargesheet against six persons, including the jailed Malik and his ‘absconding’ younger brother Junaid Malik, for allegedly carrying out blast outside the Delhi High Court with the help of two Pakistani bombers, Abu Saifulla and Abu Bilal, on September 7, 2011.
The NIA has cited strong technical evidence in terms of emails and phone call records to nail the accused. “We also have 200 witnesses supporting the case,” said NIA DIG Mukesh Singh. The witness statements include the confessions made by Malik and Dev in front of a magistrate. The agency has also made official requests to the USA for providing evidence (email trails, IP addresses) under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT).
Calling the elder Malik a “leaderless jihadist” and mastermind of the blast, the NIA claimed that he had planned the conspiracy with three Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists, including his younger brother, in an attempt to threaten the judiciary and get the death sentence of Parliament House attack convict Afzal Guru repealed.
The 1,062-page chargesheet, filed in the Patiala House Court, has named two other jailed Kashmiris – Amir Abbas Dev and Abid Hussain Bhawani – and absconders Shakir Hussain Seikh alias Chota Hafiz and Amir Kamal. Saifulla and Bilal are also absconders. The NIA will file a supplementary chargesheet against the duo in due course.
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