A Pune court granted eight days' Police custody to Indian Mujahideen
(IM) militant Mohammad
Quateel alias
Mohammad Jafir Siddiqui
on May 3, reports
The Hindu.
Siddiqui has been
accused of plotting
to plant a bomb
in the popular Dagdusheth Halwai
Ganapati Temple
in Pune (Maharashtra)
on February 13,
2010. Investigation officer Samad Shaikh said the the accused
was a close associate
of Yasin Bhatkal,
who is a co-accused
in the case, and
is absconding. Assistant
Public Prosecutor
A.V. Ausekar told
First Class Judicial
Magistrate S.S.
Bose that Siddiqui
was a “threat to
national security.” |
