By Abu Zafar, IndiaTomorrow.net,
New Delhi/ Barabanki, 24 April 2015: A local court in Uttar Pradesh’s Barbanki district on Friday found Hakim Mohammad Tarique Qasmi guilty in an about 8-year case of possessing RDX and detonator with him.
Special Session Judge S P Arvind found Qasmi guilty in the case which was filed against him in 2007, advocate Randhir Singh Suman, counsel of Qasmi, told IndiaTomorrow.net over phone.
Qasmi, who is also accused in UP courts blast of 2007, is behind bars since December 2007.
Khalid Mujahid, who died in police custody in mysterious circumstances in 2013, was a co accused in this case.
The UP Police arrested Qasmi along with Mujahid on December 22, 2007 from Barabanki Railway Station and claimed recovering detonators and RDX but their family members and human rights activists claimed that police kidnapped them from Azamgarh and Jaunpur on 12 and 16 December respectively.
Following the protest by the people the then Mayawati government of the state had set up a commission headed by Justice RD Nimesh to enquire into the arrests.
In August 2012 the Commission submitted its report to the state government raising several questions and termed the arresting doubtful.
Questioning the style of arresting and investigation done by the police the commission said that news related to both accused had been published in several dailies and relatives had approached local police, human rights activists and politicians with written application about missing or kidnapping of both accused but investigators didn’t investigate these things.
