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Aftab Ansari seeks political prisoner status
Monday November 26, 2012 09:19:11 AM,
IANS
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Kolkata: Terror
convict Aftab Ansari, now on death row for masterminding the
American Center attack here 10 years ago, has sought a political
prisoner's status, a jail official said Sunday.
Ansari, lodged in the Alipore Central Jail, sent the application
Nov 23.
"We received his application seeking political prisoner status Nov
23. It is addressed to the inspector general of state prisons. We
have forwarded the letter to the inspector general," the jail
official told IANS.
Inspector General (Prisons) Ranvir Kumar said: "He may have sent it
to the jail authorities. But I am yet to receive the application."
Ansari based his argument on the petitions submitted by seven
Maoists to the Calcutta High Court earlier this year seeking
political prisoner status. The court granted them the status in
August.
Ansari argued that like the Maoists, he too had been convicted for
"waging war against the state", an official said.
On Jan 22, 2002, terrorists fired indiscriminately at security men
guarding the American Center, killing five policemen and injuring
several others.
The attack was carried out to avenge the death of Asif Raza Khan,
an associate of Aftab Ansari, who was killed by Gujarat Police the
year before.
Ansari was arrested from Dubai thereafter and deported to India
Feb 9, 2002 to face trial. Ansari and co-accused Jamiluddin Nasir
were sentenced to death by the trial court in April 2005 and the
judgment was subsequently upheld by the high court in February
2010. However, the death sentences were stayed by the Supreme
Court in May 2010.
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