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High Court seeks Attorney-General’s help

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has sought the assistance of the Attorney-General in a case in which the Delhi police’s Special Cell has accused the Central Bureau of Investigation of not properly probing the charges against two suspected terrorists belonging to Al Badr outfit.

The Court asked the Attorney-General to make his submission on July 17, the next date of hearing. The Special Cell in its reply to an appeal by the two accused, Irshad Ali and Moarif Qamar, seeking their discharge in the case said the CBI had ignored many vital facts of the case.

The Special Cell urged the Court not to quash an order of a trial court here rejecting a request by the CBI to close the case and dismissal of discharge petitions of the two accused. The CBI, on the other hand, informed the Court that charges against the two accused were baseless. It had urged the trial court to close the case and discharge the two but it’s plea was rejected.

The Special Cell’s case is that it had arrested the two accused at Mukarba Chowk in North-West Delhi in 2006 on a tip-off that two persons carrying arms and ammunition would be coming to Delhi from Jammu and Kashmir. The Special Cell alleged that they were members of the terrorist outfit Al Badr.

The two had later challenged their arrest in the Delhi High Court, submitting that they had been falsely implicated in the case. The High Court ordered the CBI to investigate the charges against the two accused. After conducting a thorough investigation, the CBI submitted a status report to the Court saying they had been implicated in the case as the charges against them were found to be false. The High Court then directed the CBI to file a report in the trial court, whereby CBI sought the closure of the case but the court rejected it. The CBI claimed that Irshad Ali was an informer of the Intelligence Bureau (IB).

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