NEW DELHI : A Delhi special NIA court today ordered to 12-day NIA remand to Yasin Bhatkal, a key conspirator in several bomb blasts and co-founder of the banned Indian Mujahideen, and another IM operative Asadullah Akhtar alias Haddi, who were arrested from Raxaul town on the Indo-Nepal border in Bihar on Thursday.
They were produced amid tight security before NIA special judge I S Mehta wherein in-camera proceedings took place and both were granted 12-day police remand by the special judge.
Thirty-two-year-old Bhatkal alias Mohammad Ahmed Zarar Siddibappa, who hails from Bhatkal in Karnataka, and Asadullah Akhtar from Azamgarh were picked up from Nahar chowk in Raxaul, East Champaran district, about one km from the international border of Nepal on Wednesday night, in a joint operation involving Intelligence Bureau, the NIA and Bihar Police.
Bhatkal is on India’s list of 12 most wanted terror suspects involved in the Pune German Bakery blast, Delhi blast and blasts in Hyderabad, Bangalore and Mumbai.
Yesterday, they were produced before a court in Motihari in East Champaran from where the NIA had obtained 3-day transit remand to take them to Delhi Special NIA court. (AGENCIES)
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