No evidence of HuJI links, Shamli imam acquitted

Iqbal comes from Shamli district in Uttar Pradesh and was imam at a local mosque there. His wife Khairunnisa and three children live in Shamli.

A Lucknow court on Thursday acquitted Mohammad Iqbal, alias Abdur Rehman, who was arrested for alleged links with terror outfit HuJI, for lack of evidence. “Special Judge Syed Aftab Husain Rizvi acquitted him for want of evidence,” the state government’s counsel, M K Singh, said.

Iqbal comes from Shamli district in Uttar Pradesh and was imam at a local mosque there. His wife Khairunnisa and three children live in Shamli.

According to the prosecution, on June 23, 2007 the UP Special Task Force (STF) arrested two persons named Jalaluddin from West Bengal, and Naushad, from Bijnor district.

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They were nabbed from Wazirganj here, allegedly carrying explosives. The police alleged that Iqbal, along with another unidentified person from West Bengal, had escaped after Jalaluddin’s arrest.

While STF had already filed a case against him at Wazirganj police station in Lucknow in 2007, and alleged that all of them had links with the terror outfit, the 36-year-old was eventually arrested by the Delhi Police in May 2008. He was charged with possessing explosives.

In September 2012, a Delhi court acquitted him in the case lodged by Delhi Police, after which Iqbal was brought to Lucknow, and detained at the district jail, for trial in the 2007 case. The chargesheet filed here accused Iqbal, among others, of waging or attempting to wage war against the State, and under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

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