Noted Supreme Court advocate Nandita Haksar on Wednesday accused the Delhi police of 'organizing' the attack on S A R Geelani.

This is not for the first time that Geelani, professor of Arabic at the Zakir Hussain College, was being attacked, she said.

"Once he was attacked in the jail and I filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission. In March last year, we gave in writing that his life was under threat. Then, when he was meeting me in Goa [Images], the local police followed him on the instructions of the Delhi police. Now comes this attack. I suspect the special branch of the Delhi police is organising the attacks," she alleged.

She said the police was now accusing her of engineering Tuesday's attempt on Geelani's life.

• Geelani shot at, injured

"One policewoman told me that as far as the police was concerned I was a suspect in the case," Haksar told rediff.com on Wednesday at her residence in Vasant Enclave.

Geelani is an accused in the December 13, 2001, attack on Parliament. While a trial court had awarded him the death sentence, the Delhi high court had acquitted him. The SC is hearing a petition challenging the acquittal.

Recalling Tuesday's incident, the lady advocate said she had asked Geelani to be at her home around 2000 IST to discuss the case.

"Since the case was pending in the Supreme Court and was scheduled to come up for hearing on Wednesday, we decided to meet. Besides me, only those who have been tapping my phones knew Geelani would be coming to my house. Around 8.30-9 p.m. [2030-2100 IST] I heard a loud banging on my door. I, along with my husband, rushed out to find Geelani at the doorsteps. He told me he had been shot at and injured and asked me to rush him to a hospital. So I did that. Instead of appreciating my gesture, the policewoman accused me and said I was a suspect in this case," she said.

• SC seeks details of attack on Geelani

Asked why there were no signs of blood either at the gate or at her doorsteps if Geelani had walked the distance after being shot at, Haksar said some bullet injuries did not cause blood loss. "This seems to be one such case," she added.

Meanwhile, the Delhi police have dismissed Haksar's allegations.

"The media has been quoting Nandita Haksar, who has said that the attack on Geelani was by the Delhi police, which is absolutely baseless and a figment of imagination," Ranjit Narain, Joint Commissioner of Police of the crime branch, which has been given charge of the investigation into the case, told reporters in New Delhi.

"In her statement to the police during the investigation of the case, she has not said anything to that effect. In fact, she, according to her own statement, is not an eyewitness in the case as she was inside the house working on a computer at the time of the incident," he said.

Denying that the police had mounted surveillance on either Geelani or Haksar, Narain said, "Geelani had not expressed to the police any apprehension of any threat to his security prior to the incident, nor had he sought personal security from the Delhi police."

With PTI inputs