New Delhi: A court has declared Sabir Khan Pathan, claimed by Delhi Police to be an accomplice of Liyaqat Shah, as a proclaimed offender.
The court, after going through NIA`s petition, declared Pathan as a proclaimed offender under Section 82 of Criminal Procedure Code.
Shah was alleged by the elite Special Cell of Delhi Police as a terrorist of banned Hizbul Mujahideen who had come to carry out blasts in the national capital.
However, after strong resentment from Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and the state police, the case was transferred to National Investigation Agency (NIA) which found that Shah had travelled to India through Nepal under the rehabilitation scheme of the state government. Shah was released on bail in May last year.
NIA, after taking on the probe, found many loopholes in the Delhi Police`s investigation and also found that Pathan, a resident of Madhya Pradesh and alleged to be accomplice of Shah, had given Special cell`s office address in Lodhi Road as his contact address in Delhi.
Under Section 82 of Criminal Procedure Code, if any court has reason to believe that any person against whom a warrant has been issued by it has absconded or is concealing himself so that such warrant cannot be executed, such court may publish a written proclamation requiring him to appear.
