Liyaqat case: Court to consider NIA's charge sheet on Aug 20

A Delhi court would consider next month the NIA's charge sheet giving clean chit to Sayyed Liyaqat Shah, arrested in 2013 by Delhi Police which had claimed he was a terrorist of banned outfit Hizbul Mujahideen and was planning attacks here.
The matter came up for hearing before Additional Sessions Judge Neena Bansal Krishna who posted the matter for August 20 as the concerned judge, who is hearing the case, was on leave today.
In its charge sheet, National Investigation Agency (NIA) has named absconder Sabir Khan Pathan as the main accused who had allegedly planted weapons on Liyaqat to project him as a terrorist.

The agency, while absolving Liyaqat of terror charges in its charge sheet, had submitted its report to the Union Home Ministry seeking permission to investigate some Delhi Police officials for allegedly "conspiring" to target Liyaqat.
Liyaqat was arrested by the Special Cell of the police on March 20, 2013 when he was returning from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir to the Kashmir Valley via Nepal at Saunali border with his wife and children.
He was then projected as a terrorist by the special cell which had alleged that he had come to carry out terror strikes in the national capital.
Jammu and Kashmir police had protested his arrest, saying Liyaqat was returning home as per state government's policy of allowing people, who had ex-filtrated to PoK in early 1990s, to come back.

The then Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, had also flagged the issue of Liyaqat's arrest with the Home Ministry. The case was later transferred to the NIA.