By IANS,
New Delhi: The government Monday told the Supreme Court that Bihar engineer Fasih Mehmood had been detained by the Saudi Arabian authorities on suspicion of terror links.
Additional Solicitor General Gourab Banerji told the apex court bench headed by Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice Rajan Gogoi that the Saudi authorities had informed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) June 26 that Mehmood was under their detention.
Mehmood, 35, employed as engineer in Saudi Arabia, was allegedly picked up by the Saudi authorities from Al Jubal May 13 for suspected terror links.
Banerji told the court that the habeas corpus petition by Mehmood’s wife Nikhat Praveen had become infructuous and it should be disposed of.
Justice Sathasivam told counsel for Nikhat Praveen that it would record the statement of ASG Banerji and dispose of the matter.
The court said that there were procedures to be followed to get Mehmood back in India, that too, if the government was interested.
The court directed the listing of the matter after three weeks asking the central government to file a report about Mehmood’s detention in Saudi Arabia.
Mehmood hails from Barh Saaila village in Darbhanga district of Bihar, about 200 km from Patna. Fasih’s father, Firoz Ahmad, is incharge of the Benipatti primary health centre in Madhubani district. His mother is a school teacher in Darbhanga.