Neither prepared nor submitted to MHA any report on 2006 Mumbai train blasts: IB to Delhi High Court

The Intelligence Bureau (IB) has advised the Delhi High Court that it has not prepared or submitted any report to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on the 2006 Mumbai train blasts.

The submission has been made by the IB in an affidavit filed pursuant to the courtroom’s path in January this yr to State on file that it had not prepared any report in 2009 or shortly thereafter on the bombings of July 11, 2006 when seven RDX bombs ripped by means of as many Western line native trains in Mumbai killing 189 folks and injuring 829.

“It is respectfully submitted that no report was prepared and/or submitted in 2009 or any time shortly thereafter by the IB to MHA in respect of the 7/11 Mumbai bomb blasts,” the company has stated in its affidavit, filed by means of Central authorities counsel Rahul Sharma.

The IB, additionally represented by advocate C. K. Bhatt, has additional stated that the case was investigated by the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Maharashtra police.

Justice Prathiba M. Singh on January 27 had requested IB to file on an affidavit that it had not prepared any report in 2009 or shortly thereafter on the 2006 Mumbai train bombings case.

The order got here on a plea moved by Ehtesham Qutubuddin Siddique, who has been awarded capital punishment for the July 11, 2006 serial blasts, in search of an IB report of 2009 purportedly calling for evaluate of proof within the case.

IB, in its affidavit, has stated that Siddique’s claims had been primarily based on information reviews which can’t be admitted or recognised as an official submission. The courtroom had referred to as for an affidavit after noting that the company had earlier advised the excessive courtroom, in an earlier spherical of litigation on the identical subject, that it was exempted from offering the report beneath the Right to Information (RTI) Act.

In the sooner matter, the excessive courtroom had stated the Central Information Commission (CIC) “erroneously” concluded that the data sought by Siddique didn’t pertain to allegations of corruption or human rights violation and requested it to think about his request afresh.

However, earlier than the CIC, the IB said that there was no such report as claimed by the convict and the fee, thereafter, dismissed his plea on June 11, 2019. In his plea filed by means of advocate Arpit Bhargava, Siddique has sought setting apart of the June 11, 2019 order of CIC claiming that the fee took the choice by “blindly” trusting IB’s assertion that there was no report of 2009.

Mr. Bhargava, throughout the listening to on January 27, had advised the courtroom that the IB filed an affidavit in July 2019 earlier than CIC stating no such report existed solely after the plea was dismissed Siddique, presently lodged within the Nagpur Central Jail, has claimed that he was falsely implicated within the case which quantities to violation of his human rights and due to this fact, he wanted the IB report which purportedly referred to as for evaluate of the proof within the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case.