IM suspect Fasih handed over to B’lore
2 Nov 2012 8:49 AM IST
The custody of Fasih Mahmood, a suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist involved in blasts in Bangalore and Delhi in 2010, was given to Bangalore police by a Delhi court on Thursday.
Additional Sessions Judge Asha Menon handed the custody of Mahmood to Bangalore police after investigators in Delhi told the court that his questioning was over.
Bangalore police, while seeking custody of Mahmood, told the court that they wanted to interrogate him over his alleged role in the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium blast in Bangalore.
The court first sent him to judicial custody and directed the jail authorities to hand over his custody to Bangalore police.
The 35-year-old engineer from Bihar, employed in Saudi Arabia, was arrested at Delhi airport on 22 October when he arrived after his deportation from Saudi Arabia.
The accused was picked up by the Saudi authorities from Al Jubal on 13 May and lodged in a Saudi jail on 26 June for suspected terror links, police said.
Mahmood hails from Barh Saaila village in Darbhanga district of Bihar, about 200 km from Patna. His father, Firoz Ahmad, is in-charge of the Benipatti primary health centre in Madhubani district. His mother is a school teacher in Darbhanga, police said.
Mahmood is the second terror suspect that Saudi Arabia, home to over two million expatriate Indians, has deported to India. Alleged 26/11 handler Abu Jundal was sent back to India in June.at nationalised bank branches, but this being a cooprative bank no security cover was provided, said a senior police officer.
Additional Sessions Judge Asha Menon handed the custody of Mahmood to Bangalore police after investigators in Delhi told the court that his questioning was over.
Bangalore police, while seeking custody of Mahmood, told the court that they wanted to interrogate him over his alleged role in the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium blast in Bangalore.
The court first sent him to judicial custody and directed the jail authorities to hand over his custody to Bangalore police.
The 35-year-old engineer from Bihar, employed in Saudi Arabia, was arrested at Delhi airport on 22 October when he arrived after his deportation from Saudi Arabia.
The accused was picked up by the Saudi authorities from Al Jubal on 13 May and lodged in a Saudi jail on 26 June for suspected terror links, police said.
Mahmood hails from Barh Saaila village in Darbhanga district of Bihar, about 200 km from Patna. His father, Firoz Ahmad, is in-charge of the Benipatti primary health centre in Madhubani district. His mother is a school teacher in Darbhanga, police said.
Mahmood is the second terror suspect that Saudi Arabia, home to over two million expatriate Indians, has deported to India. Alleged 26/11 handler Abu Jundal was sent back to India in June.at nationalised bank branches, but this being a cooprative bank no security cover was provided, said a senior police officer.
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