Neither prepared nor submitted to MHA any report on 2006 Mumbai train blasts: Intelligence Bureau to Delhi HC

The Intelligence Bureau has told the Delhi High Court that it has not prepared or submitted any report to the Ministry of Home Affairs MHA on the 2006 Mumbai train blastsThe submission has been made by the IB in an affidavit filed pursuant to the courts direction in January this year to state on record that it had not prepared any report in 2009 or shortly thereafter on the bombings of July 11 2006 when seven RDX bombs ripped through as many Western line local trains in Mumbai killing 189 people and injuring 829It is respectfully submitted that no report was prepared andor submitted in 2009 or any time shortly thereafter by the IB to MHA in respect of the 711 Mumbai bomb blasts the agency has said in its affidavit filed through central government counsel Rahul SharmaThe IB also represented by advocate C K Bhatt has further said that the case was investigated by the AntiTerrorist Squad ATS of Maharashtra PoliceJustice Prathiba M Singh on January 27 had asked IB to record on an affidavit that it had not prepared any report in 2009 or shortly thereafter on the 2006 Mumbai train bombings caseThe order came on a plea moved by Ehtesham Qutubuddin Siddique who has been awarded capital punishment for the July 11 2006 serial blasts seeking an IB report of 2009 purportedly calling for review of evidence in the caseIB in its affidavit has said that Siddiques claims were based on news reports which cannot be admitted or recognized as an official submissionThe court had called for an affidavit after noting that the agency had earlier told the high court in an earlier round of litigation on the same issue that it was exempted from providing the report under the Right to Information RTI ActIn the earlier matter the high court had said the Central Information Commission CIC erroneously concluded that the information sought by Siddique did not pertain to allegations of corruption or human rights violation and asked it to consider his request afreshHowever before the CIC the IB stated that there was no such report as claimed by the convict and the commission thereafter dismissed his plea on June 11 2019In his plea filed through advocate Arpit Bhargava Siddique has sought setting aside of the June 11 2019 order of CIC claiming that the commission took the decision by blindly trusting IBs statement that there was no report of 2009Bhargava during the hearing on January 27 had told the court that the IB filed an affidavit in July 2019 before CIC stating no such report existed only after the plea was dismissedSiddique presently lodged in the Nagpur Central Jail has claimed that he was falsely implicated in the case which amounts to violation of his human rights and therefore he needed the IB report which purportedly called for review of the evidence in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts caseThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever