[Reader-list] I was forced to undergo scientific tests: Sadhvi Pragya

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Delhi/Cops_framed_2_informers_as_terrorists_CBI/articleshow/3714710.cms

cops framed two informers as terrorists
times of india 18th of Nov.2008

 NEW DELHI: After spending nearly three years in jail, Irshad Ali and
Muarif Quamar may finally taste freedom as Central Bureau of
Investigation
(CBI) has sought their discharge, saying they were framed by three
Special Cell police officers of Delhi Police's counter-terrorism wing.

In its closure report submitted in the court of additional sessions
judge S S Mohi, the probe agency concluded that Ali and Quamar were
innocent and not, as alleged by Delhi police, Al-Badr terrorists. The
agency has also recommended that the three cops who were part of the
operation be booked for creating false evidence, lying under oath and
other serious offences. The judge will consider CBI's plea on November
27. All three sub-inspector level policemen indicted by CBI are part
of the elite anti-terror unit of Delhi Police headed by ACP Sanjeev
Yadav.

The Delhi Police had claimed that two alleged Al-Badr terrorist were
arrested by the special cell in February 2006 from Mubarak
Chowk after a tip-off. Reportedly, the two were informers of
Intelligence Bureau and Special Cell.

CBI sources said the report clearly points at a nexus between the IB
and Special Cell in framing Qamar and Ali. They add that the report
"conclusively proves'' that calls were made often to both Ali and
Quamar from landline numbers of intelligence agencies, which prove the
duo were informers. Apart from Delhi Police, an inspector from IB,
Majid Din, has also been found involved in the abduction and illegal
detention of the two Kashmiris, the CBI states in its report. The
report also points out how RDX and arms were planted on both accused
after they were picked up. The moot question, agency insiders say, is
where did the cops get hold of such massive quantity of unaccounted
ammunition to plant on the duo, as arms recovered from terrorists are
strictly regulated.

The report also points out how no follow-up in J&K was done after
arrest of both men and an NBW issued against two persons, who cops
allege supplied the arms, returned unserved because it was sent to a
wrong address in J&K. Moreover, neither workplace nor homes of the
accused in Bhajanpura in Delhi were raided, making the agency suspect
a cover-up operation.

CBI punched holes in the police version and concurred with claims made
by Sufian Siddiqui, lawyer for the accused, that not a shred of
evidence could be produced by Delhi Police to link Ali and Quamar to
Al Badr. "No narco analysis was pressed for, no source was presented,
there were no raids and no motive was established by Delhi Police in
its chargesheet submitted in trial court,'' says Sufian.

Interestingly, one of the sub-inspectors named by the CBI won a
President's Police medal this year. He, along with other officers, was
rewarded for an encounter in 2006 near Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium in
which a militant Abu Hamza was gunned down by special cell.





On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Aditya Raj Kaul
<kauladityaraj at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was forced to undergo scientific tests: Sadhvi Pragya
> 17 Nov 2008, 2005 hrs IST, PTI
>
> NASHIK: Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, arrested in the connection with the
> Malegaon blast case, on Monday alleged that the ATS had forced her to
>  undergo scientific tests after detaining her "illegally".
>
> She said she was forced to undergo scientific tests like brain mapping and
> narco tests while she was illegally detained in Mumbai between October 10
> and 23, her lawyer Ganesh Sovani said.
>
> In an affidavit filed before a Nashik Magistrate's
> court<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/I_was_forced_to_undergo_scientific_tests_Sadhvi_Pragya/articleshow/3724347.cms#>by
> Sovani, Thakur said she was called to Surat by a Maharashtra
> Anti-Terrorism Squad official on October 7 while she was in Jabalpur in
> connection with a motorcycle she owned.
>
> She said she was received by a disciple in Surat following which she met the
> ATS official who informed her the motorcycle she owned had been used in the
> September 29 Malegaon blast.
>
> The sadhvi said she informed the officer about having sold the vehicle in
> 2004 to one Sunil Joshi but she was asked to go to the ATS office in Mumbai
> for further interrogation.
>
> The ATS official took her and her disciple from Surat, one Bhimbhai
> Pasricha, on October 10 to the investigating agency's office in central
> Mumbai where she was interrogated for two days, Thakur claimed.
>
> She alleged that she was beaten by an ATS official on October 12 and her
> disciple was also forced to beat her.
> ATS officials took her to a hotel in south Mumbai on October 15 and was
> forced to call a disciple and say that she was well, Thakur alleged.
>
> Due to her health deteriorating, Thakur was allegedly taken to two hospitals
> for treatment, the
> affidavit<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/I_was_forced_to_undergo_scientific_tests_Sadhvi_Pragya/articleshow/3724347.cms#>said.
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