Tassaduq Yassen:
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday while stating that the Delhi Police had ‘scripted the fake encounter’ story, acquitted seven men including six Kashmiris arrested by them in 2005 and branded as hardcore militants of Hizbul Mujahidin and other militant outfits.
Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat, while ordering their release remarked that the encounter story plotted by the police in this regard was ‘carefully scripted in office’.
According to the police, the four accused Basir Ahmed Shah (47), Nazir Ahmed Sofi (37), Haji Gulam Muhiddin Dar alias Zahid (33) and Saqib Rehman alias Masood (33) who were in a Tata Indica, were chased by a police team and apprehended after a brief encounter at Randhawa Garden, Kapashera by the Delhi Police in July 2005,
The other three accused Abdul Majid Bhat, Abdul Qayoom Khan and Birender Kumar Singh were arrested on the information provided by the four during police interrogation.
The court remarked that no encounter had taken place and the entire story presented about the arrest of the accused was fake and scripted".
"The encounter alleged to have been taken place on the intervening night of July 1-2, 2005, did not take place at all and an absolutely fake encounter has been projected.
"The story of the encounter was carefully scripted in the office of Special Staff, Delhi Police, Dhaula Kuan, by its main author Sub Inspector Ravinder Tyagi with the assistance of sub inspectors Nirakar, Charan Singh and Mahender Singh," the ASJ remarked.
In its chargesheet, police claimed the accused persons disclosed that they were working on the directions of Pakistan's spy agency ISI and were planning to attack Palam Airport. They had claimed a chinese pistol, eighteen rounds, a hand grenade, 35 live cartridges of AK-47 assault rifle, fake currency of Rs 50,000 besides two cheques of Rs 9.5 lakh drawn on J&K bank were seized from their possession.
Police further claimed that after the interrogation of the four, they arrested three others and recovered huge amount of fake currency notes, an AK-47 assault rifle, several magazines, cartridges and hand grenades from them.
All the accused, however, claimed innocence before the court and said they have been falsely implicated in the case.
Accused Gulam Moinuddin Dar submitted to the court that he was involved in anti-militancy operations in Kashmir Valley and was instrumental in surrender of various militants before the police, but was falsely implicated in this case. Dar had unsuccessfully contested against PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti in 2004 Lok Sabha elections from Anantnag seat.
Police ‘encounter’ story
At the time of arrest the in 2005, the Delhi Police had claimed to have foiled a terrorist attack planned at the Palam Air Force station in New Delhi. The police also claimed to have seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition, a sketch of the Air Force station and an Army combat uniform from their possession.
Haji Gulam Muhiddun Dar, Saqib Rehman, Basir Ahmad Shah and Nazir Ahmad Sofi were arrested on a secret information provided by military intelligence, the police arrested them from the Kapashera area, about one km from the airport, on the intervening night of 1-2 July, 2005 after a brief encounter while they were trying to enter the New Delhi from Haryana.
The then Deputy Commissioner of Police (South-West) Ravindra Yadav had claimed the accused have disclosed that the Air Force station was one of the several targets. They have already carried out one recce mission to the base. Adding Dar was also an agent of the ISI and active in Jammu and Kashmir politics for almost a decade and had even been provided three personal security officers (PSOs) by the state government.
The DCP had also claimed that Rehman was associated with the JKLF but had joined the Islamic Front in 2000 and obtained arms training in PaK. The four men, residents of Srinagar and Pulwama, were involved in a number of cheating cases amounting to crores of rupees and had been staying in and around Delhi for the past two months.
They accused Bashir, a commerce graduate from Kashmir University, who was running a company called Jhelum Agro Forest Finance in Srinagar in 1995 of cheating his clients after collecting Rs 80 lakh from investors by promising huge returns, while Nazir, who had a diploma as a medical assistant, had joined them as he wanted to make some easy money.
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