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NIA not allowed to question Ajmer dargah blast
suspect
Saturday September 24, 2011 02:05:38 AM,
IANS
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Jaipur:
A court here Friday temporarily restrained the National
Investigation Agency (NIA) from questioning Ajmer dargah blast
suspect Bharat Rateshwar in the Jaipur Central Jail.
The accused's lawyer Jagdeesh Rana had approached the special
court alleging that the agency was granted permission to
interrogate Rateshwar without his lawyers being informed about it.
"NIA had moved an application before the court Sep 19 seeking
permission for my client's interrogation in the jail. The court
granted the permission when the defence lawyer was not present for
argument," said the counsel.
The court then restricted NIA from the questioning and fixed Sep
27 as the next date of hearing, he added.
The lawyer alleged that NIA was forcing Rateshwar to turn approver
against another key suspect Swami Aseemanand.
Rateshwar had been arrested from his native place of Valsad in
Gujarat after he turned hostile and refused to remain a Rajasthan
Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) witness. He had earlier recorded a
statement before a court against some other blast suspects and
even RSS leader Indresh Kumar.
The blast at the dargah of Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer on
Oct 11, 2007 had claimed three lives and left 15 injured. The
Rajasthan ATS has so far arrested Devendra Gupta, Lokesh Sharma,
Chandra Shekhar, Harshad Solanki and Mukesh Vasani from Rajasthan,
Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat in this connection.
The Rajasthan High Court recently released one of the accused,
Chandra Shekhar, on bail.
NIA has been handed over the probe into various blasts allegedly
carried out by right-wing Hindu organizations including the
Malegaon and Samjhauta Express bombings.
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