Thaindian News

New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) The Delhi Police Tuesday filed a chargesheet in a city court accusing journalist Syed Mohammad Kazmi of conspiring with foreigners for the Feb 13 Israeli embassy car blast.

The chargesheet also named Iranian nationals Houshang Afshar Irani, Masod Sedaghatzadeh, Syed Ali Mehdi Sadr and Mohammed Reza Abolghasemi as suspects.

Kazmi was been charged under various provisions of the anti-terror law, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), and the penal provision for attempt to murder, among others.

In the chargesheet, filed before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav, police also charged Kazmi under the provisions of the Explosive Substances Act.

He was arrested March 6 for his alleged involvement in the bombing. Four people were injured when an Israeli embassy car was struck by a bomb near the prime minister’s house in central Delhi.

Tal Yehoshua Koren, 42, wife of Israeli defence attache Colonel Yossi Refaelov, suffered multiple injuries when a motorcycle rider attached a magnetic explosive device to her car in central Delhi and sped away.

As per the chargesheet, after the Delhi blast Irani went to Bangkok and then to Kuala Lumpur, while Masod Sedaghatzadeh has been detained in Malaysia since March 14.

According to police, Irani visited India April 25, 2011 and left the country May 6, 2011. He came back to India again Jan 29 but left for Malaysia Feb 13 evening, within hours of the attack on the Israeli embassy car here.

Irani stayed at a hotel named Hotel High 5 and an analysis of his mobile phone number revealed that he had contacted Kazmi. The CCTV footage and other records of his stay at the hotel were seized, police said.

According to police, a scooter purchased by Irani for surveying the area near the Israeli embassy was seized from Kazmi’s house.

Police claimed that the phone records revealed that Kazmi was in contact with the other accused.