New Delhi : A day after a suicide car bombing rocked Delhi’s Red Fort area, the Supreme Court sent a pointed message by refusing to grant bail to an accused charged under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). The accused, who was allegedly caught with inflammatory material, had approached the top court seeking bail.
At least 10 people were killed, and several others injured in the blast. To this, the bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta replied, This is the best morning to send a clear message. The bench noted that the accused was a member of a WhatsApp group that carried a flag identical to the Islamic State flag, rejecting the defence’s argument that only Islamic literature had been seized from him.
The court’s observation came even as investigators continued to probe the Red Fort car blast, which is being treated as a suspected fidayeen-style terror attack. The explosion in the car, a Hyundai i20, also damaged many vehicles in the area. Sources said that Mohammad Umar, a Kashmiri doctor with alleged links to Jaish-e-Mohammed, is believed to have been driving the car at the time of the blast.
Umar planned the attack along with two of his associates. He, however, carried it out alone in a panic following the arrests of the accomplices in Faridabad earlier on Monday. Together with his accomplices, Umar placed a detonator in the car and executed the terror act.
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