SRINAGAR, Oct 16:
Rejecting the prosecution charges, a local court acquitted three persons who were accused of facilitating October 18, 2005 fidayeen attack in Srinagar in which a former Minister was injured and his two guards were killed.
Additional Session Judge, Srinagar, T K Watal in his order said the prosecution had failed to prove the charges against the accused for their role in the fidayeen attack on high security Tulsi Bagh Government quarters.
Acquitting the accused Syed Shabir Bukhari and Shakil Ahmad Sofi, both residents of Pattan and Mushtaq Ahmad Akhoon, a resident of downtown in 2005 fidayeen attack, the Judge said there was no material evidence on record pointing a finger of their involvement in hatching a conspiracy to carry out the attack.
A challan produced in the court against the accused had alleged that they hatched a conspiracy and later facilitated the attack on Tulsi Bagh quarters in 2005.
However, the court said there is no proof that the suicide attackers were dropped by the accused at the gate of Tulsi Bagh quarters to facilitate the attack.
In this attack, State secretary of Communist Party of India (M) Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami had a narrow escape after his guard on main door stopped the militant who was later killed.
Besides the Minister, a Head Constable (HC) of CRPF and another person Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Shah were also killed in the attack. (UNI)
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