The Nationwide Investigation Company was on Wednesday granted six days’ custody of a jail psychiatrist, a police officer, and a girl who the company stated had been concerned in offering sources and data to a terror convict lodged in Bengaluru’s Parappana Agrahara Central Jail.
The trio–Dr Nagaraj S, a psychiatrist employed on the Parappana Agrahara jail; Chan Pasha, an assistant sub-inspector with the Metropolis Armed Reserve (CAR) in North Bengaluru; and Anees Fathima, mom of absconding accused Junaid Ahmed–had been arrested on Tuesday in reference to the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) jail radicalisation case of 2023.
Particular Public Prosecutor P Prasanna Kumar, representing the NIA, offered detailed submissions earlier than the NIA Particular Court docket in Bengaluru. He submitted within the court docket that Fathima, designated as accused quantity 10 and residing in Sultanpalya, R T Nagar, performed an important position in facilitating monetary transactions between varied accused individuals within the conspiracy.
The prosecutor additionally argued that Pasha, whereas performing his official duties, illegally supplied police escort particulars of Thadiyantavide Naseer, a life-sentence convict imprisoned for terror-related offences on the Parappana Agrahara jail, to his co-accused. In trade for sharing this extremely delicate operational data, Pasha allegedly obtained unlawful gratification from the conspirators.
Kumar additional elaborated that Dr Nagaraj exploited his place as a psychiatrist to help different accused individuals in smuggling cell phones to Naseer contained in the jail. These communication gadgets had been allegedly utilised by suspects to coordinate and help actions linked to the banned terrorist organisation LeT.
NIA officers beforehand indicated that Nagaraj obtained help from a person named Pavithra in executing these smuggling operations. After reviewing the prosecution’s submissions, the particular court docket granted the NIA custody of all three suspects for six days till July 14. The accused had been offered earlier than the court docket by NIA DySP Susheela.
In July 2023, the Central Crime Department (CCB) of the Bengaluru metropolis police raided a home in Kodigehalli and seized seven countrymade pistols, 45 dwell bullets, walkie-talkies, and a few paperwork. They stated radicalisation was being carried out contained in the central jail. The case was later handed over to the NIA.
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The NIA has filed a chargesheet in opposition to 9 accused, together with Junaid Ahmed, underneath varied sections of the Indian Penal Code and the UAPA, the Arms Act, and the Explosive Substances Act within the case.