Govt in touch with Spain over Roshan Jamal: MEA

The Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday told the Lok Sabha that it had asked the Spanish authorities to intimate formal charges made against Indian national Roshan Jamal Khan, languishing in a Spanish prison for almost two months under allegations of planning a terror attack. In a written reply to a question by Chandra Mani Tripathi and Laxminarayan Pandey, Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma told the Lok Sabha that “two persons claiming to be Indians were arrested on January 19 by the Spanish authorities on suspicion of terrorism related charges…” and that the nationality of one of them, Roshan Jamal Khan, had been confirmed to be Indian.

Out of the 14 persons picked up by the Spanish police in a raid at a mosque in Barcelona, four including another Indian Sarosh Ali, were released after a few days. Barcelona’s judge of the Audencia Nacional Ismael Moreno, however, ordered “unconditional imprisonment” of the remaining 10.

Khan’s counsel in India, meanwhile, has requested that his interrogation or recording his statement should be done in the presence of a representative from India.