Members of the Muslim community who participated in the protest said that Kazmi's arrest was a clear indication that the Muslim community was being directly targeted in the name of fighting terrorism. Priyanka reports
Amidst allegations that Israel's intelligence agency Mossad was interrogating Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, who was arrested for a diplomat's car bombing, a Delhi court on Saturday asked the police to file an affidavit giving its response. Though Delhi police denied the allegations, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav, apparently not convinced with the oral submission, wanted the policemen to state on affidavit and sought the official register of the officers.
A Delhi court has asked jail authorities to produce journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested for his alleged role in bombing of Israeli diplomat's car, to produce him personally before it, and not via video-conferencing for the extension of his judicial custody.
Israeli intelligence agency Mossad has not questioned Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested in connection with last month's Israeli diplomat's car bombing, the Delhi police told a local court on Tuesday, refuting the journalist's claim.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav issued the warrant against Masod Sedaghatzadeh, an Iranian national who is said to be detained in Malaysia, after Special Cell of Delhi Police said he was also involved in the conspiracy of the blast.
In an apparent fallout of the arrest of its Urdu news bulletin anchor-journalist Mohammad Ahmad Kazmi on the charge of abating the February 13 bomb blast on an Israeli embassy car in New Delhi, government-run Doordarshan is profiling professionals engaged for its news services to ascertain among others their religion, Pakistani connections and any criminal background, with a warning that their contract will be cancelled if they fail in the police verification.
The Delhi police was specifically told on Wednesday by a court in New Delhi not to permit any other probe agency to interrogate journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested for his alleged role in the February 13 bombing of an Israeli diplomat car.
The Enforcement Directorate has begun a probe into the source of alleged foreign funds received in the accounts of journalist Syed Mohd Ahmad Kazmi arrested in connection with the bomb attack on an Israeli embassy vehicle.
The Delhi police on Saturday denied that it had made journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested for his alleged role in the bombing of an Israeli diplomat's car, sign blank papers and documents without letting him read them.
Journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested for his alleged role in the February 13 bomb attack at an Israeli diplomat's car in New Delhi, was on Tuesday denied bail by a Delhi court.
Journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, who was arrested for his alleged role in the February 13 bomb attack at an Israeli diplomat car, sought bail from a Delhi court on Saturday, pleading that he "should not be pushed to the point of committing suicide." Arguing for bail before the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav, Kazmi's counsel Gajinder Kumar said, "I (Kazmi) should not be pushed to a point where I am forced to commit suicide."
The Enforcement Directorate on Monday questioned the wife of journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested in the Israeli diplomat car bombing case, in its probe into the source of alleged foreign funds received by the couple.
Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested for his alleged role in the February 13 Israeli diplomat's car bombing case, has moved a Delhi court alleging that he is being harassed in custody and is being forced to "confess a crime he never committed."
The Delhi police on Wednesday told a court in New Delhi that the conspiracy of Israeli diplomat car bombing case was hatched outside India and the possibility of foreign hands in it cannot be ruled out.
Communist Party of India - Marxist general secretary Prakash Karat has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to intervene in the case of senior Urdu journalist Syed Mohd Ahmad Kazmi, who has been languishing in jail since March 6 after he was detained in connection with the bomb blast in an Israeli embassy car in Delhi on February 13. In a letter to Dr Singh, he said that Kazmi was a journalist of repute and as such, there was concern over the treatment meted out to him.
Journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested for his alleged role in bombing of the Israeli diplomat's car, has told a Delhi court that in police custody, he was forced to sign some papers without reading them.
Journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested for his alleged role in the February 13 bomb attack on an Israeli diplomat's car in New Delhi, was on Tuesday denied bail by a Delhi court which said the evidence prima facie show that he had a role to play in the terror strike.
The Supreme Court has rejected the plea of the Delhi police to review its judgement granting bail to journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi who is the lone accused in last year's Israeli diplomat attack case.
The action against Geelani, who was acquitted in the Parliament attack case, comes even as Delhi Police on Thursday registered a case of sedition in connection with a Tuesday event at JNU campus.
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