Former legislator says he gave money to Delhi blast suspects
Submitted by admin3 on 11 March 2010 - 11:48pm
By IANS,
New Delhi: A former Congress legislator from Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh Thursday admitted that he unwittingly gave money to two Delhi blast suspects after they escaped from the September 2008 Batla House encounter. A Samajwadi Party (SP) legislator, however, denied providing any monetary help to them.
According to Abdus Salam, Junaid alias Haris came to his house in Noida Sector 44 alongwith another friend around 4 p.m. Sep 19, 2008 and asked for some money to buy train tickets.
"I knew Haris as he was the son of a close friend of mine. He asked for some money to buy train tickets to go to Azamgarh and I gave them Rs.1400 to Rs.1500. I did not know that he was involved in Delhi blasts and came to know three days later when his picture appeared in a national daily," Salam told IANS over phone.
Salam said by seeing the picture of other suspects, he came to know that the youth accompanying Junaid that day was Shahzad, a suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist also involved in Delhi blasts.
Police had earlier said that during interrogation Shahzad told them that a former legislator gave them money to travel to Azamgarh.
According to police sources, Shahzad also claimed SP leader Abu Azmi had helped them. But Azmi denied the allegations.
"I never gave money to them and I don't know any one of them," he told a TV channel over phone from London.
Salam denied informing police that Junaid took money from him but said he had asked Junaid's father to take his son to police.
Five synchronised blasts -- two in Connaught Place, two in Greater Kailash and one in a crowded market in Karol Bagh - occurred within a span of 31 minutes on Sep 13, 2008. Twenty-six people were killed and over 150 were injured in those blasts.
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Is Kaangress also an accomplice in TERROR ATTACKS ???
It remains to be "proved" WHETHER or NOT Junaid alias Haris, and his friend Shahzad were OR are in-fact involved in New Delhi Serial Bomb Attacks on Sept 13th 2008.
Facts as reported:
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Bomb-blasts were on: Sept. 13th 2008 (thirteen)
Azamgarh ex-M.L.A. Mr. Abdus Salaam gave money to Junaid and Shahzad on: Sept. 18th 2008 (eighteen)
Conflicting dates:
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So the question arises, if IN-FACT ex-M.L.A. of Kaangress (Abdul-Salaam) gave money to these two suspects on:
Sept. 18th 2008
Bomb-blasts occurred in Delhi on:
Sept. 13th 2008
a) Why is there a discrepancy in dates, and how can these be inter-related ???
b) Can ex-M.L.A. be in-fact an ACCOMPLICE to TERROR ???
c) Were the two suspects, in-fact involved in Bomb-Blasts OR are they being framed ???
An Indian
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