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Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, May 31: A Mitsubishi Outlander car bearing Maharashtra’s registration No. MH02AY 7867 might be linked to September 7, 2011 blast outside Delhi High Court, which had been planned and executed by a Kishtwar based module of different militant outfits.
The car, which was seized from heart of Kishtwar town on Tuesday night, has been traced to missing Bollywood and Lollywood actor Laila Khan’s family.
Highly placed sources said police was investigating use of luxurious Outlander valued at Rs 24 lakh in the Delhi High Court blast last September that had taken the toll of 15 persons and left 80 others injured.
“As Parvez Ahmed, who had brought the car from Mumbai to Kishtwar during the days of blast remained untraced, police quizzed his family members and some other suspects to reach to him. As Parvez was evading arrest after seizure of the car, police have intensified searches for him”, they said.
When approached for comments, DIG Doda-Ramban range, Gareeb Dass said: “Parvez was nearly caught by us in Jammu but he managed to slip away and was hiding in Himachal Pradesh. Things would be clear only when Parvez was arrested as he knows all about the Outlander. A hunt was on to nab him in Himachal. At present nothing can be ruled out. We are keeping our fingers crossed”.
Sources said the preliminary investigations by police have revealed that the car had been brought to Kishtwar few days before the blast and there was every possibility that it might have been used by the militants.
“Had it not been so, Parvez Ahmad would have come out and disclosed details about the Outlander car”, police said, adding the National Investigating Agency (NIA), which had been conducting investigations in Kishtwar blast, has been sounded about seizure of the car.
While one of the NIA team was already in Kishtwar, another team could reach the town shortly for investigations.
The possibility of the car being connected to “criminal activities” Laila Khan went missing was also not ruled out, sources said.
Worthwhile to mention here that three militants, all hailing from Kishtwar, were arrested by the NIA after the blast. Three more militants were wanted by the NIA and all of them including Junaid Akram Malik were hiding in Kishtwar. The NIA had placed a reward of Rs 10 lakh each on the head of wanted militants.
The three wanted militants included Shakeer Ahmed alias Chotta Haafiz, Aamir Kamal alias Kamran and Junaid Akram Malik, all residents of Kishtwar. Junaid’s brother, Dr Wasim Akram Malik was among three arrested accused, one of whom has agreed to become approver in the court.
Meanwhile, police today arrested a dreaded Hizbul Mujahideen militant from Jammu Railway Station along with his cousin as soon as they boarded off a train this morning from Uttar Pradesh.
Police sources said a team of Sopore police arrested Wasim Ahmad Bhat, a Hizbul Mujahideen militant and his cousin Sajjad Ahmed from Railway Station, Jammu when they reached here in a train from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh.
Wasim was hiding in a `madarsa’ at Azamgarh after fleeing from the Kashmir Valley following an attack on Sopore police station in January this year.
Wasim’s cousin, Sajjad Ahmed, who was accompanying the militant has also been taken into custody for questioning though preliminary reports revealed that he was not involved in militancy.
Bhat was involved in the firing at the Sopore police station on January 7 n in which one civilian was killed and five policemen were injured.
Immediately after this incident, Bhat had vanished from the State following heightened searches launched by the police to nab him.
He was wanted in connection with an FIR (No. 8/2012) registered at Sopore police station under various Sections, including that of murder.
Kashmir police had been tracking movement of Wasim carefully and when he entered into the jurisdiction of Jammu along with his cousin Sajjad Ahmed, Sopore police arrested him.
Sajjad, who is being interrogated, may be released if his involvement was not found in militancy, sources said.
Twenty-three year-old Wasim Bhat is a locally trained militant, who began with Lashkar-e-Toiba terror group and later switched his allegiance to Hizbul Mujahideen.
He is also wanted in connection with the murder of a doctor in Handwara district in North Kashmir, police said.
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