Bangalore: More than six months after being branded terror suspect and accused of plotting an attack, another Bangalore terror suspect, a sacked DRDO employee, will be released from jail on Tuesday. A National Investigation Agency Court ordered the release of Aijaz Ahmed Mirza on bail, since the NIA failed to file chargesheet against him.
NIA did not charge him under any offences and has sought more time to probe Aijaz's role. Aijaz was accused of plotting to target political leaders in Karnataka. But no proof was found against him.
Other two terror suspects Journalist Muthi-Ur-Rehman Siddiqui and Yusuf Nalband were released after the NIA court ordered their release on February 26. The court had observed that there was no prosecutable evidence against them.
So far, 15 persons have been arrested in the case while the remaining 10 are absconding. Siddiqui and Nalband were among those arrested in August in 2012.
In its chargesheet filed in a special NIA court on February 20 against 12 of the 15 persons, NIA had alleged that the accused had hatched a conspiracy to commit terror acts in India by a LeT supported terror network based abroad and their associates in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. NIA, which took over investigation in November 2012, had stated that charges against Siddiqui and Nalband were being dropped for lack of evidence.
With Additional Inputs From PTI
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