Monday, June 22, 2009

'Indian Mujahideen terrorist' remanded to judicial custody

New Delhi (PTI) A Delhi court on Saturday sent Akbar Ismail Choudhary, a suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist allegedly involved in serial blasts in the capital last year, to seven days judicial custody.

Choudhary, 27, who was brought to the capital from Hyderabad on June 11, was produced before the court after the completion of his 10-day police custody.

Arrested by the Mumbai police on October five last year, Choudhary is accused of sending terror e-mails along with IM's media cell head Mansoor Asghar Peerbhoy and two others to different media houses immediately before the blasts in the capital on September 13 last year.

Metropolitan Magistrate Manish Yaduvanshi remanded the accused to judicial custody till June 27.

The court also granted a plea of M S Khan, counsel for accused, to allow Choudhary to take basic articles which he was carrying for day-to-day use to Tihar jail here.

According to the police, the accused had purchased a laptop for sending e-mails along with Peerbhoy and others to media houses before Delhi and Ahmedabad serial blasts by hacking a wi-fi system at Mumbai

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