Terror suspect's murder: court issues warrant for 2 inmates

Qateel was found strangulated in his cell in Yerawada Central Prison yesterday morning. A complaint filed by the jail authorities named the two inmates, Mohol and Bhalerao, as the culprits.

The police today filed an application before holiday court's judge, Magistrate S B Munde, seeking permission to question Mohol and Bhalerao. The judge asked the police to produce them first before the court and issued a production warrant.

The two, who are already facing cases under MCOCA, are likely to be produced before the court tomorrow.

26-year-old Siddiqui, an alleged operative of Indian Mujahideen, was in judicial custody at Yerawada in a case filed by Maharashtra ATS in which he was accused of attempting to plant a bomb at the famous Dagdusheth Halwai Ganpati Temple in Pune in 2010. He had been named in other terror-related cases too.

Assistant Public Prosecutor A K Pacharane said "right now both the suspects are lodged in the Yerawada prison for other offences. Police need to interrogate them in connection with Siddiqui's murder. We have filed a plea before the court requesting to hand over the accused in the fresh case."