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Blasts' prime accused remand extended

Special judge Narendra Singh Rawal passed the order

Varanasi: A trial court here on Thursday extended the judicial remand of Mohammad Walliullah, prime accused of the blasts that rocked the city in March this year, by another 14 days and adjourned the hearing in the case for December 15.

The special judge Narendra Singh Rawal passed the order while hearing the cases against Walliullah in the makeshift court in the central jail here.

Meanwhile, defence lawyer Devbrant moved an application before the trial court informing it of the transfer of the temple city blast cases from here to Ghaziabad by the Allahabad High Court.

This was based on a writ petition filed by Walliullah who sought transfer of proceedings in these cases to other cities citing threat to his life and his inability to hire a lawyer.

This temple city was rocked by two powerful blasts at the Sankat Mochan temple and the cantonment railway station on March 7 this year in which at least 20 persons were killed and hundreds injured, while a third explosion was averted after police recovered a pressure cooker bomb from Godowlia area in the city on the same night.

The Special Task Force had arrested Walliullah from Lucknow on April 4 in connection with complicity in the blast cases and charged him with four other accused persons, including three Bangladeshi nationals and members of a terrorist outfit Harkat-ul Mujahideen-e Islami (HUJI), while another was shot dead in a police encounter with the police in Sultanpur district in April.

PTI

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