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Murdered terror suspect's lawyer to seek CBI
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Saturday June 09, 2012 12:02:22 AM,
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Siddiqui was found strangled with a thin rope
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New Delhi: A lawyer
representing suspected Indian Mujahideen operative Qateel Mohammed
Jaffer Siddiqui, who was found murdered inside his cell in Pune's
Yerawada Central Jail, said Friday that he would approach the apex
court for a CBI probe into the death.
Siddiqui, an accused in the Jama Masjid shootout case of 2010, was
Friday found strangled with a thin rope inside his cell in the
high-security jail in Pune.
He was arrested by Delhi Police in November 2011 and was in
transit remand in Pune. He was arrested for making an attempt to
plant a bomb at the Shrimant Dagdusheth Halwai Ganapati temple in
Pune on the day of the German Bakery blast on Feb 13, 2010.
Siddiqui's counsel M.S. Khan told IANS that the terror accused was
found murdered on the same day when a charge sheet was filed
against him in the Jama Masjid shoot-out case in a Delhi court
Friday.
Khan said the murder of a terror accused in prison is impossible
as such accused are kept in fool-proof security. He said there was
"some conspiracy" in his client's murder.
"I will approach the apex court for seeking direction for a CBI
investigation in the matter," said Khan. He said he does not agree
with the order of the Maharashtra government which has called for
a CID probe into the murder.
He said he will also try for handing over of Siddiqui's body to
his family.
Preliminary investigations suggest a gang war among members of
rival mafias in the prison, which could have led to Siddiqui's
killing.
He was arrested for involvement in the Chinnaswamy Stadium blast
in Bangalore besides an aborted bid to blow up the Shrimant
Dagdusheth Halwai Ganapati temple in Pune last year.
Following the murder, security has been beefed up in several jails
including Mumbai's Arthur Road Central Jail where Pakistani
terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab is lodged and Raigad's Taloja
Jail where extradited don Abu Salem is lodged after he was
attacked by rival gangsters in a Mumbai jail last year.
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