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Court reserves order on Kazmi petition
Tuesday March 20, 2012 07:59:31 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
A Delhi court Tuesday reserved its order on the petition of
arrested journalist Syed Mohammad Kazmi who said officials of a
"foreign agency" had interrogated him over the bomb attack on an
Israeli embassy employee here.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav reserved order for
Wednesday after Delhi Police submitted the names of all
investigators who questioned Kazmi.
Delhi Police denied that any foreigner interrogated Kazmi.
The police said: "In this case, till date, no agency of any other
country i.e. Mossad has yet come to interrogate the accused."
Public prosecutor Rajiv Mohan, however, told the court that since
terrorism was a global phenomenon, Indian officials have to
cooperate with other countries.
He added that foreign investigating agencies can be allowed to
interrogate suspects if required under law.
Mohan also told the court that it was not mandatory for
interrogators to be in uniform.
"However, the interrogating officer always wears his identity card
during the interrogation of Kazmi," police said.
Police refused to let Kazmi's counsel Vijay Agarwal be present
when the journalist was questioned.
Kazmi, who hails from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh and is a resident of
Delhi, was arrested this month on charges of allegedly
collaborating with Iranian suspects who are said to have carried
out the bombing.
Four people were injured when the car of an Israeli diplomat's
wife was struck by a bomb here Feb 13.
Tal Yehoshua Koren, wife of the Israeli defence attache, suffered
multiple injuries when a motorcycle rider attached a magnetic
explosive on her car and sped away.
Within seconds, the device exploded, setting the car on fire.
A post-graduate in Persian from Delhi University, Kazmi -- whose
family insists he has nothing to do with the bombing -- has worked
as a freelance journalist with Doordarshan.
He has also worked as news reader for a Tehran-based radio station
and was working as a freelancer for Iranian news agency IRNA.
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