Family of Fasih Mahmood, a suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist who has been deported to India after five months of detention in Saudi Arabia, has decided to move the Supreme Court for speedy trial.
“We will request the Supreme Court for speedy trial so that Fasih is proved innocent at the earliest,” his father Firoz Ahmed said.
“My father (Mehmood Babu) was chief of Keoti panchayat for 22 years and respected by all section of people because of his clean image...My family does not have any criminal antecedents,” Ahmed said.
He said, “We have full faith in the Supreme Court which will do justice to my son.”
Fasih’s wife Nikhat Parveen and mother Amra Zamal have gone to Delhi, Ahmed, who is Medical Officer of Government Primary Health Centre at Benipatti in neighbouring Madhubani district, said.
Fasih’s mother is headmistress of an Urdu school here.
Fasih’s wife Nikhat Parveen had approached the Supreme Court in May this year claiming that her husband was in the custody of Central security agencies, a charge denied by the government.
Fasih is alleged to have been involved in the Chinnaswamy Stadium blast in Bengaluru and the shooting near Jama Masjid (Delhi), both in 2010, and is wanted by Delhi and Karnataka police.
Fasih’s family hails from Barh Samaila village, about 35 km from Darbhanga town.
Fasih did his intermediate from Millat college in Darbhanga and engineering from Anjuman Engineering college at Bhatkal in Karnataka.
Five years back, he went to Saudi Arabia where his brother works.
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Delhi police special cell gets custody
AGE CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI, OCT. 23
Suspected Indian Mujahideen operative Fasih Mahmood, who was deported from Saudi Arabia on Monday, has been handed over to the special cell for ten-day custodial interrogation by a city court.
The alleged militant was arrested by the special cell from the IGI airport on Monday morning following his deportation from Saudi Arabia since the 35-year-old engineer from Bihar was arrested by the Saudi authorities from Al Jubal on May 13 and lodged in a Saudi jail on June 26 for suspected terror links.
He is accused of being involved in the 2010 blast in Bengaluru’s Chinaswamy stadium and Jama Masjid shootout case, along with seven other IM men — Mohammed Qateel Siddiqui, Aftab Alam, Mohammed Tariq Anjum Hassan, Gayur Ahmad Jamali, Gauhar Aziz Khomaini, all arrested by the special cell.
Fasih’s wife Nikhat Parveen claimed that her husband has been falsely implicated.