Mumbai Police found itself in a piquant situation when it again sought the remand of Indian Mujahideen(IM) militants, who are suspects in serial blasts in the country, in connection with the 26/11 probe on terror strikes only to withdraw after admitting it was an error.
Mumbai Police found itself in a piquant situation when it again sought the remand of Indian Mujahideen(IM) militants, who are suspects in serial blasts in the country, in connection with the 26/11 probe on terror strikes only to withdraw after admitting it was an error.
The Mumbai police retracted since it had previously made a remand application on December 15 last to investigate if the IM militants had any links with those behind the Mumbai terror attacks.
On January 2, this year, Mumbai Police moved a remand application but retracted the very next day by filing a corrigendum in the court withdrawing the plea.
Joint commissioner of Mumbai Police (Crime) Rakesh Maria said it was an "error on the part of the investigating officer of the IM case."
Maria had said that the plea seeking the custody of the militants in the 26/11 probe was erroneously mentioned in the remand application.
The Mumbai crime branch had filed the Jan.2 remand application in the special MCOCA court that it wanted to verify if the 20 alleged members of terror group Indian Mujahideen (IM) had any links with the Lashkar-e-Taiba group allegedly responsible for the November 26 terror attack.
Assistant commissioner of police, Ashok Duraphe who had drafted the remand application then filed a corrigendum before the MCOCA court next day requesting the court to delete that point from the application.
Maria said his department had filed a corrigendum, which stood for both the remand applications. While six of the IM operatives are in Mumbai's Arthur Road Jail, the rest are in the custody of the Gujarat police in connection with the Ahmedabad and Surat blasts.
In its first application before a court on December 15 last, the police sought remand of the Indian Mujahideen militants, allegedly involved in serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad, Delhi and Bangalore.
In the Dec 15 remand plea, the crime branch sought extension of time to file chargesheet against the alleged IM members by 60 more days since more investigations were needed.
The application moved by Assistant Commissioner of Police Ashok Duraphe and public prosecutor Kalpana Chavan stated police wanted to "establish the link between the IM militants and Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone accused caught alive in November 26 terror attack" and sought more time to complete investigations and file a chargesheet in the case.
Special MCOCA Judge Y D Shinde had accepted the plea and had granted the prosecution 60 more days to file the chargesheet.
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