New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday sent five accused, including three doctors and a religious preacher, to judicial custody till February 13 in the Red Fort blast case. Special Judge Prashant Sharma allowed the National Investigation Agency (NIA)'s (NIA) plea seeking judicial custody of Dr Adil Rather, Dr Shaheen Saeed, Dr Muzammil Ganai, Maulvi Irfan Ahmed Wage and Jasir Bilal Wani.
The NIA had arrested Wani from Srinagar on November 17 last year. Wani is accused of providing technical support for the suicide blast near the Red Fort on November 10. 15 people were killed in the blast. The court also extended the judicial custody of two other accused, Yasir Ahmed Dar and Nasir Bilal Malla.
According to the NIA, Dar, a resident of Jammu and Kashmir, was a close associate of Umar-un-Nabi, who was driving the car loaded with explosives outside the Red Fort on November 10. The federal agency alleged that Naseer had deliberately sheltered Umar-un-Nabi by providing logistical support and also destroyed evidence related to the terror attack. The NIA has so far arrested nine accused in the case.