Mohd Ather;Barabanki
This AMU scholar and suspected member of Hizbul Muzahideen, Guljar
Ahmad Wani, has been acquitted by Barabanki Lower Court in the case of hatching
conspiracy for Sabarmati Express blast in the year 2000. The court in the lack
of evidence has ordered to release Wani and co-accused Mobin, according to the
defendant lawyer.
Guljar Ahmad Wani, hails from a well qualified family of Srinagar
and his father has been a government officer. He was 28 years when he was
arrested and the student of PhD in Arabic in Aligarh Muslim University Uttar
Pradesh.
The defendant lawyer, MS Khan, told that Additional Session Judge,
MA Khan, acquitted both from all the framed charges. The prosecution had been
failed to prove any of the charges framed against him.
Delhi police had arrested Wani with the alleged explosive and
objectionable materials in the year 2001.
He is the resident of Peeparkari area of Srinagar and is in Lucknow
jail at present.
He was charged of the blast which was carried out pre-evening of
Independence Day was in the train running from Muzaffarnagar to Ahmedabad. The
9 people were killed in this blast.
Ahmad, resident of Srinagar, has been behind the bars more than 16
years.
Delhi police had arrested him from the New Delhi railway station
in July 2001 exactly after one year of blast on Sabarmati Express in August
14th, 2000.
He had been framed of charges in 11 cases of different cities
including Agra and Kanpur, and other areas of Delhi.
The court has acquitted already from many other charges. The High
Court Lucknow Bench had denied Wani’s bail application, saying it on 26th August
that the releasing of such people will affect the social interests adversely. Wani
had challenged the court order in Supreme Court.
The Apex Court had issued direction to the lower court to cross-
examine the case with the witnesses earliest within 6 months.
The prosecution had charged that the accused to carry out the
blast in Sabarmati Express on August 14th, 2000 had hatched the conspiracy in
Habeeb Hall of AMU in May 2000. The charges framed against him in the year July
2001.
