Page 1 - STATE v ARIF & ORS. SC-NO-540-2022 PART 1

IN THE COURT OF SH. DEEPAK SEHRAWAT, CMM (NDD),
• PATIALA HOUSE COURTS, NEW DELHI

Case FIR No. 688 dated 22.12.2000 u/s 302/307/353/186/2011121!216/468/420/471/
474/120-B/34-IPC, 14 Foreigners Act, 4/5 Explosive Substances Act & 25/27 Arms Act,
PS Kot.;Ji, Delhi.
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State Vs. Bilal Ahmad Kawa s/o Ali Mohammad Kawa
r/o Qutubuddin Pora, PS M.R.Ganj, Aali Kadal,
Srinagar, Jammu.& Kashmir. (Aged: 37 years),
Date of arrest 10.01.2018

Subject: Request for re-calling the case file from the record room .

Hon'ble Sir,

It is submitted that on 22.12.2000, at around 9.05 PM, an incidence of firing/attack in
the Red Fort, Delhi in which 6 terrorist of banned terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT), armed with AK-56/47 rifles entered into Red Fort and fired of the security forces,
deployed in the security of the Red Fort. Total three army personnel died in the incidence.
On the same day, the terrorist organization, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) has claimed for the above
mentioned attack on Red Fort. Accordingly, the above mentioned case vide FIR No.
688/2000 dt. 22.12.2000, was registered at PS Kotwali, Delhi. Subsequmtly, the
investigation of the case has been transferred to Special Cell, Delhi.

During the investigation of the case, on 25.12.2000 one accused namely Ashfaq
Ahmed @ Abu Hamaad @ Mohd.: Arif. s/o Mohd. Akram r/o Haveliya, Distt. Abottabad,
Pakistan, i.e. the militant of Lashkar-e-Tayyeba, alongwith his wife, was apprehended in a
raid at Gazipur, Delhi. On the basis of his interrogation, another I:_aid was conducted in the
area ofBatla House, Delhi on 26.12.2000, in which one of his associate and intruder namely
Abu Sarna] (r/o Pakistan), was killed in the encounter with the team of Special Cell, Delhi.
Other executors were identified as Abu Samad, Abu Sad, Abti Sakhar, Bilal and Abu Haidar
(all r/o Pakistan). In this case, seven accused persons Ashfaq Ahmed @ Arif, Rehmana
Yusuf, Nazir Ahmed Qasid, Farooq, Babar Mohsin Bagwala, Matloob Alam and Sadaqat Ali
were convicted on 31.10.2005, by the Ld. court of Sh. O.P. Saini, ASJ, Delhi. During the
appeal, on 13.9.2007, all the accused persons have been acquitted by the Delhi High Court,
Delhi vide orders dated 13.09.2007, except accused Ashfaq Ahmad @ Mohd. Arif, whose
death penalty was confirmed by the Hon'ble High Court and later on by the Apex court on
I 0.8.20 II. In this case, several accused persons including the above mentioned accused Bilal
Ahmed Kawa, were declared as PO by the concerned court of Sh. A.K. Sarpal, MM, Tis
Hazari Courts, Delhi vide orders dated 04.05.2001.

On 10.01.18, the above mentioned Bilal Ahmed Kawa RIO Srinagar, Jammu &
Kashmir, Proclaimed offender and wanted in present case FIR No. 688/2000, PS Kotwali,
Delhi has been arrested in Delhi in the case, who is presently in ~olice Custody remand vide
orders dated 11.01.2018 ofthis Hon'ble Court for 10 days (i.e. upto 21.01.20181\.,(
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