A Pakistani youth, who was arrested by special cell of the Delhi police entering India illegally as a spy, was granted interim bail for two weeks by a city court on Tuesday to prove his innocence.
The court granted the bail to Imran so that he can place documents in the court to prove he has applied to the Central government to permanently settle down in India.
Chief metropolitan magistrate Vinod Yadav, while granting interim bail to accused Imran, said, “Considering the facts and circumstances of the case from a human angle, it (is) a fit case for grant of interim bail to accused Imran for two weeks to produce the documents before the court and prove his innocence on his furnishing surety and personal bond of `20,000 each.”
“The court believes that the accused and his wife could be a victim of circumstances and, thus, it cannot close eyes to their plight and miseries.”
However, the city court, while giving interim bail, clarified that the accused shall surrender before the court on April 4, till then his wife Sophia, who was with him during the arrest, will remain in the custody.
Along with the bail plea, Imran also sought permission to permanently stay in India and to bring back his family in Pakistan.
The accused, an Indian born, was arrested by the special cell on December 2011 for giving wrong information on pan card. According to the accused, he left his native place, Ahmedabad, for Pakistan when he was teenager. After that he got married and settled over there whilst surrendering his Indian citizenship for a Pakistan passport.
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Mossad did not interrogate Kazmi: Police
AGE CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI, MARCH 20
The Delhi police on Tuesday told a local court that the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad has not questioned Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested in connection with last month’s Israeli diplomat’s car bombing.
In the mean time, the investigators also told the court that, if any request is made by foreign agencies, including Israeli agency, they have no problem in allowing them to interrogate the accused “if they are part of the international convention of which India is a signatory”. Mr Kazmi in his complaint had said that besides the Delhi police “Israeli officials (Israeli Intelligence Agency Mossad etc.) are lined up to interrogate him daily and they are not in uniform in order to hide their identity.”
To this the Delhi police said “it is not a mandatory for investigator to wear uniform” but they must wear an ID card which the agencies have been wearing, both during arrest and interrogation period.
“Investigation of the case is at a very initial and crucial stage and hence interrogation of the accused is being conducted by the undersigned (Delhi police) and not by any foreign agency,” it said.
Mr Kazmi was arrested in connection with the case on March 7.