FIA gets remand of Mumbai suspect

Published February 17, 2009

RAWALPINDI, Feb 16: The Federal Investigation Agency obtained on Monday a 15-day physical remand of a suspect of the Mumbai attacks from an anti-terrorism court set up in Adiala jail.

Judge Sakhi Mohammad Kahot granted the remand of Hammad Amin Sadiq, an activist of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba.

He was nominated in the FIR 1/09 FIA under section 7 (terrorism), 11-U, 21-C, 21-I (terrorist and banned organisations) of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997, and 302 (murder) read with 34 (murder by more than one person), 109 (abetment) Pakistan Penal Code and 11(misuse of encryption), 17 (cyber terrorism), 19 (abetting, aiding or attempting to commit offence) of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2008 registered on Feb 12 with the FIA, Islamabad.

FIA Inspector Zahid Akhtar and special public prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar told the judge that they wanted information about the man’s alleged accomplices in the Mumbai attacks. A number of incriminating articles linked to the terror attacks had been seized, they said.

Hammad, son of Mohammad Amin of Rahim Yar Khan, was arrested in Faizabad area of Rawalpindi on Sunday.

The provincial home department had declared a part of the jail as court at the request of the federal government.

Meanwhile, ATC-I judge Chaudhry Habibur Rehman sought all incriminating articles seized by Attock police in connection with a suicide attack on a school van carrying children of army personnel.

The court initiated the trial against Khair Malang, Hafiz Saeedul Akbar, Israrul Haq, Amin Khan, Fareed Khan and Ghulam Nabi for their alleged involvement in the attack in Kamra on Dec 10, 2007. Seven people, four children among them, were injured.

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