Israel Embassy Blast: Court says Kargil students are blemish free while granting bail

New Delhi: A Delhi city court has granted bail to four Kargil based students arrested for their alleged conspiracy in the low-intensity blast near the Israeli embassy in the Capital on January 29 by the Delhi Police Special Cell. Granting bail to the accused, the court observed that the students have blemish-free antecedents and the investigating agency failed to produce incriminating proofs against them.

Nazir Hussain, Zulfikar Ali, Ajaz Hussain and Muzammil Hussain, the students from Kargil in their 20s, have been released by the Metropolitan Magistrate for want of incriminating proofs against them in the explosion and their involvement with any terrorist organisation or to conjure them as a threat to society.

Metropolitan Magistrate Dr Pankaj Sharma ordered the release of the students taking cognisance of their age and their well-settled roots in the society. The students were arrested on June 23 by the Delhi Special Cell and charged on them criminal conspiracy in the explosion, while the case is being investigated by the NIA.

Days after the explosion, the NIA announced a Rs 10 lakh reward for those who help the investigation agency with the identification of the persons who were caught on CCTV camera while they were allegedly planting explosive material outside the Israeli embassy.

Interestingly, soon after the announcement of the bounty, the Delhi Special Cell came out with the arrest of the four students, implicating them in the conspiracy. The students were said to have been arrested from Kargil in a joint operation with "a central agency" and local police and brought them to Delhi.

The Investigation Officer is said to have submitted a Tweet by one of the accused which was presented before the court as highly objectionable material against Israel, the US and other western countries. But the court said though the tweet could be objectionable to Israel, the report mentions not any objectionable posts by the accused against India.

Noting that the IO has already recovered all the electronic gadgets from the accused, the court said the antecedents of all accused are blemish-free and they are students.