New Delhi: A Delhi court yesterday issued non-bailable warrants against banned terror outfit Indian Mujahideen founder Riyaz Bhatkal and nine other alleged operatives in the February 21 Hyderabad
twin blasts.
A National Investigation Agency (NIA) special court, during an in-chamber hearing, issued the warrants against Riyaz Bhatkal, suspected to be based in Pakistan, and nine other terror group operatives: Iqbal Bhatkal, Mohsim Chaudhary, Amir Reza Khan, Shahnawaz Alam, Asadullah Akhtar, Ariz Khan, Mohd. Khalid, Mirza Shadaab Beg and Mohd. Sajid.
District Judge I S Mehta also sent two alleged IM operatives Syed Maqbool and Imran Khan back to judicial custody till March 13, after expiry of their five-day NIA custody.
The NIA questioned the two over the Hyderabad twin blasts.
The agency yesterday told the court that Maqbool and Khan were taken to Hyderabad and they revealed some important facts about the blasts, court sources said.
Maqbool and Khan had in July 2012 surveyed Hyderabad’s Dilsukhnagar, where the February 21 blasts took place, the NIA said.
The NIA told the court that the conspiracy behind the Hyderabad blasts was hatched by IM modules and they also moved an application for issuing production warrant against alleged IM operative Obaid-ur-Rehman. IANS
