By IANS
New Delhi : A Delhi court Monday framed charges against three people for the 2005 Diwali-eve bomb blasts in Delhi that killed 60 people and injured about 150 others.
Additional Sessions Judge Babulal framed charges against Mohammed Rafiq Shah, Mohammed Hussain Fazli and Farukh Ahmed Fazlu after brief arguments from their respective counsel.
On Friday, the court framed charges against Tariq Ahmed Dar, the mastermind behind the blasts, who then pleaded not guilty and the court ordered to begin the trial in the case.
All three accused charged Monday were booked under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 120-B (criminal conspiracy), Section 307 (attempt to murder), Section 302 (murder) and also Section 4 of the Explosive Substance acts.
Dar was booked under Section 121 of the IPC (waging or attempting to wage war against the government of India), 121-A (conspiracy to commit offences for waging war), 122 (collecting arms for waging war), 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder), Section 4 of the Explosives Substance Act and Sections 17 and 18 of the Unlawful Activities Act.
However, the charges could not be framed against Gulam Ahmed Khan, another accused, after he mentioned that he was not mentally prepared to attend the court proceedings.
The court then ordered the superintendent of Tihar Jail to take him to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and submit a detailed report on his health Jan 28, the next date of hearing.
Delhi Police last month filed a supplementary charge-sheet in the court claiming they had more evidence against all the five accused.
The charge-sheet was filed against Dar, mentioning his call details that allegedly established that he was in touch with Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives Abu Al Kama and others to hatch the conspiracy for the serial blasts Oct 29, 2005.
Records of the calls made before and after the blasts point to the complicity of the accused, the police alleged in the charge-sheet, which also named Mohammed Hussain Fazli and Mohammed Rafiq Shah as the accused.
Details of illegal monetary transactions involving Dar and others were also mentioned in the charge-sheet.