Third accused in Delhi HC blast remanded to police custody

Kishtwar (J&K), Sep 16 (PTI) The third person arrested in
connection with the Indian capital city Delhi High Court blast
-- Amir Abbas Dev -- was remanded to seven days of police
custody by a local court to enable the security agencies to
question him.
The accused was produced before Principal District and
Sessions Judge Kishtwar in the north Indian state Jammu and
Kashmir Friday who remanded him to custody for questioning him
at length for helping in sending an email barely two hours
after the September seven blast.
He is being interrogated by a joint team of interrogators
of J and K Police and National Investigation Agency (NIA).
Dev was arrested Thursday as per the court records even
as NIA Chief Sharad Chandra Sinha had denied it in Delhi
Thursday night.
"...Whatever appeared in media regarding the course of
investigation is speculative in nature and is denied," he had
said.
Dev is accused of handing over draft mail three days
before the blast to two high school children -- Shariq Ahmed
and Abid Hussain. The two children were the first one's to
have been arrested by the police for sending the mail.
As sleuths were still struggling for a breakthrough to
trace the main perpetrators of the September seven blast, the
sources said there was a possibility that the two could be
part of a larger conspiracy behind the terror strike.
Dev is alleged links with a religious organisation and
was picked up after detailed interrogation of the two boys
arrested Thursday, the sources said. He is suspected to have
been involved in brainwashing youths to join the militant
ranks.
Meanwhile, the family members of the arrested boys Friday
pleaded that the children were innocent and expressed full
faith in the investigations.
Amir Abass Dev and Abid Hussain have nothing to do with
Delhi High Court blast and sending of an e-mail, their family
members said.
Amir's father Ghulam Abass Dev said his son was suffering
from mental problems from his childhood and remained under
constant treatment in Jammu as a result of which he remained
weak in his studies.
"I am working as petition writer in Kishtwar court complex
for the last 35 years and have good reputation in the society
and I am known to each and every person," he said.
Attahullah Bhawani, father of Abid, said his son remained
in mental anxiety after he lost his mother when he was nine
and could not even communicate properly with people.