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Bihar engineer Fasih Mehmood in Saudi custody: Government to SC
Monday July 09, 2012 07:51:39 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The government Monday told the Supreme Court that Bihar engineer
Fasih Mehmood had been detained by the Saudi Arabian authorities
on suspicion of terror links.
Additional Solicitor General Gourab Banerji told the apex court
bench headed by Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice Rajan Gogoi that
the Saudi authorities had informed the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) June 26 that Mehmood was under their
detention.
Mehmood, 35, employed as engineer in Saudi Arabia, was allegedly
picked up by the Saudi authorities from Al Jubal May 13 for
suspected terror links.
Banerji told the court that the habeas corpus petition by
Mehmood's wife Nikhat Praveen had become infructuous and it should
be disposed of.
Justice Sathasivam told counsel for Nikhat Praveen that it would
record the statement of ASG Banerji and dispose of the matter.
The court said that there were procedures to be followed to get
Mehmood back in India, that too, if the government was interested.
The court directed the listing of the matter after three weeks
asking the central government to file a report about Mehmood's
detention in Saudi Arabia.
Mehmood hails from Barh Saaila village in Darbhanga district of
Bihar, about 200 km from Patna. Fasih's father, Firoz Ahmad, is
incharge of the Benipatti primary health centre in Madhubani
district. His mother is a school teacher in Darbhanga.
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