6 acquitted in 2006 conspiracy case

The Ahmedabad Rural Court on Friday acquitted six people accused of having links with Lashkar-e-Toiba and hatching a conspiracy to blow up some buildings in Ahmedabad in 2006.

Written by: Express News Service

2 min readAhmedabadDec 12, 2009 03:51 AM IST

The Ahmedabad Rural Court on Friday acquitted six people accused of having links with Lashkar-e-Toiba and hatching a conspiracy to blow up some buildings in Ahmedabad in 2006. Principal District Judge G N Patel cleared them of charges,as the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) failed to provide evidence and prove the charges brought against them.

The ATS had arrested Nooruddin,Peer Ali,Haarish,Junaid,Zahid Khan of Ahmedabad,and Altaf Sheikh,a Vadodara resident,in 2006. Three years ago,the ATS had filed a complaint against them for allegedly having links with the Pakistan-based terror outfit. It further said the suspects had surveyed some city buildings and hatched a conspiracy to blast them.

According to ATS,Peer Ali had gone to Hyderabad to collect explosives prior to his arrest in February 2006. However,defence lawyers B M Gupta and C B Gupta argued that charges against their clients were false. Between April 2002 and October 2006,Pir Ali was serving a jail term,then how can he be in Hyderabad? said Gupta.

During cross-examination,the jail authorities had confirmed that Ali was in the Sabarmati Central Jail during the period when ATS claims he was in Hyderabad. He further said: Haris,Junaid and Zahid Khan were also in jail till 2003,so how can they hatch the conspiracy?

According to Gupta,the ATS had filed the case on the basis of the witness who in his deposition in some other case had said he was forced by the ATS to give the statement against the accused. Gupta said that some 23 witnesses were examined during the trial and five others still shown as absconders in the chargesheet filed by the ATS.

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