Results of the polygraph test performed on at least one of the accused picked up from Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir have indicated HuJI hand in the September 7 Delhi high court blast that killed 17 people.
Sources in the Union Home Ministry said that in the polygraph test, the accused confessed having first an initial meeting in July and then a larger meeting with three Bangladeshi men at a mosque in Jammu on September 3, four days before the blast, to decide on the place of the terror attack.
Primarily a Bangladesh-based terrorist outfit, Harkat-ul-Jehadi-al-Islami (HuJI) used to have a significant presence in Kishtwar region of J&K, but after the crackdown its influence withered. NIA director general SC Sinha and Inspector General (Investigations) Sanjeev Singh briefed Union home minister P Chidambaram on the developments in the case.
Though the polygraph or the lie detector test does not have any evidentiary value, sources said it has given the investigators solid leads in the probe which can lead to more arrests.
“It at least has given us enough indication to look for HuJI and not Indian Mujahideen as the main perpetrators of the blast,” sources said.
The two accused, Amir Abbas Dev and Abid Hussain, suspected of having played a hand in the Delhi high court blast, were picked up by the NIA, with the help of Jammu and Kashmir police, after the investigators traced the first email sent to media houses to an internet cafe in Kishtwar.
Sent from harkatuljihadi2011@gmail.com address, the email read: “We owe the responsibility of todays blasts at high court delhi..... our demand is that Afzal Guru’s death sentence should be repealede immediately else we would target major high courts & THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA..........”
After intial hiccups, the NIA finally managed to reach the secured the transit remand of the two accused and brought them to Delhi where they were remanded to police custody till October 5 by a Special NIA court after an in camera hearing on September 22.
