Mirza Himayat Baigs family said they would move the high court for justice. None from his family was in the court when Baig was pronounced guilty in the German Bakery blast case. Speaking to The Indian Express over phone,his brother Mirza Tariq Baig said,We are not in a position to comment on the courts verdict. Our lawyers will speak about it. We could not come to Pune today as my mother is not well. He,however,maintained that his brother is innocent. We believe that he is not involved in the case. We will move the high court to claim justice for him. Who is Himayat Baig Himayat Baig hails from a lower middle class family in Kamwada area of Beed. He has two brothers. His father,Inayat Baig,runs a jilebi stall at Karanja. He visited his family home in Beed a month before the blast. After completing his Diploma in Education from Pune,he moved to Udgir a few years ago. About a year and a half prior to the blast,he started the Global Internet Cafe in Pune. According to the ATS,Baig was handling operations for the terror outfit,Lashkar e- Toiba in Maharashtra. His family has repeatedly denied he had any links with any terror outfit or for that matter with the German Bakery blasts. They also denied he knew the six other suspects booked in the case. Of these six suspects,two alleged LeT operatives including Fayyaz Kagzi and Sayyad Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal also hail from Beed and are allegedly old friends of Baig. Jagzi and Jundal are also alleged to have given terror training to Baig.
