Security agencies have detained a suspected HuJI operative, Hafiz Aamir, for allegedly sending a terror email in the aftermath of the September 7 blast outside the Delhi High Court.
Aamir is understood to have told the investigators that an email claiming responsibility on behalf of the HuJI was sent on his directions, sources said today.
Aamir, who has been detained in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district, is alleged to be an operative of terror outfit Harkat-ul-Jehadi-al-Islami (HuJI).
Security agencies are interrogating him, they said.
Meanwhile, the toll from Delhi High Court blast has risen to 14. Admitted with intestines jutting out of the abdomen and pellets embedded all over the body, 34-year-old Mridul Bakshi succumbed to his injuries at New Delhi's RML hospital.
A doctor with the Trauma ICU at the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital where Bakshi was admitted said: "Bakshi was brought to us unconscious and seriously injured on September 7. He died today at around 4 AM. We were aghast to see his wounds when he was brought to the hospital. His skull was broken, his hands, legs and chest, all had injuries and was bleeding. His intestine was sticking out of the abdomen."
"We conducted surgeries of his intestine and his skull and were waiting to conduct the rest once he gained consciousness but this did not happen."
A resident of Uttam Nagar in west Delhi, Mridul is survived by wife and a five-month-old son.
The explosion outside Gate No.5 at the Delhi High Court on September 7 has now claimed 14 lives and over 70 have been injured.