Page 9 - STATE v ARIF & ORS. SC-NO-540-2022 PART 1

Shootout accused wants Red Fort accused gave

rv·b~ free of chains • money for matrimony

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NEW DE,l..Pl: )1kistani national chains. Even ~he accused m the at-' H'F~correspondent Ghazipur.
ArifaliasAshfaq,themainaccLised tack on Pa~lmment_ ~ou~e wer_e New Delhi, March 20 Special Prosecutor A.P.
in the Red Fort shootout case, ere- without chatns, he sa1d m h1s apph- Ahluwalia read the state-
ated a scene when he shouted at cation. The police are yet to file a REHMANA AHMED, wife ments of three other ac·
the court on the issue of ren~l of reply to his plea. of the main accused in the cused in the case, Babar
his chains. As soon as proceedings Earlier, special prosecutor A P Red Fort shootout case, Ash· Mohsin Baghwala, Faruq
ended,Ashfaq shouted:"! will not Ahluwalia alleged that two Srina- faq Ahmed, said in her and Nazir Ahmed Qasid.
get justice from this ~nurt." He was gar-based haw ala operators- Fa- statement on Wednesday In his statement, Bagh-
joinediritheout~~yhislndian rooq Ahmad Quasid and Nazir ~ that Ashfaq offered her Rs wala said he met Bilal, a ter·
wife and co-accu ..... ::.J, Rehman a Ahmad Quasid- arranged mon- ' 10 lakh for marrying him. rorist, on his way to Pak·
YusufFarooqi. ey from Pakistan for the alleged The proseCution proceed- istan.
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Security personnel accompany- Lashkar·E-Taiba terrorists to exc- ings in the case began on Later, Ashfaq contacted
ing the accused immediately .took cute the attack. March 6, fifteen months af. him through Bilal and re-
the couple out of the court of addi· Fifteen months after the attack ter the attack in which two vealed his plans to attack
tional sessions judge M S Sabharw- on Red Fort,.arguments on charge armymen and a civilian the Red Fort. Baghwala pro·
al, who was hearing arguments on began on March 6 with the prose· Were killed on December 22. vided logistic support to
charge. cut ion alleging that it was a pre· ' Rehmana said that Ash- Ashfaq and took him on a
Ashfaq has moved an applica· planned terrorist act perpetrated faq had contacted her in re- recce to the main areas in
tion seeking t~e removal of his by the Pakistan·based LeT. (PnJ sponse to a matrimonial ad- the city.
vertisement in a newspaper. The police recovered a let-
~R?lll Cl1) ~ Ashfaq told her that he was ter from Ashfaq posted to
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working "for the lSI and if Babar from Srinagar after
she married him, he would the attack.
~fiR' ~ttll~l give her Rs 10 lakh. The prosecutor· alleged
In return, he could carry that Srinag<ir-based hawala
3Hmcn out his activities without at· operators Nazir Ahmed
Qasid and Faruq Ahmed
m;mwmm tracting suspicion.
The police said they had Qasid had forwarded the
"!''t ~. 20 """' . . recovered Rs 2.85 lakh and money for the attack from
~in;;o:~~ii; some bank receipts from a the Lashkar-e· Tayyeba to
~. 31iUfur ~ O!lftq; a,;. raid at Rehmana's house in Ashfaq.
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