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Publication: Times Now
Date: June 29, 2009
URL: http://www.timesnow.tv/Madni-ordered-to-be-handed-over-to-Kolkata-police/articleshow/4320828.cms
Mohd Omar Madni, an alleged aide of Pakistan-based
terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed, was on Monday (June 29)
ordered by a local court to be handed over to Kolkata police in a case relating
to seizure of fake currency. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sunil
Choudhary allowed a plea by the Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata police
seeking his transit remand in the case of recovery of fake currency having
face value of Rs 60,000.
The court also directed the Tihar jail authorities
in Delhi to hand over the custody of Madni, who was under the judicial custody,
for his production before the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate
(ACMM), Bankshal, in Kolkata. Armed with a production warrant against Madni
from the Kolkata court, the West Bengal police submitted before the court
here that the name of the accused was revealed following arrest of four persons
from the state capital there.
Mohd Mohibur Rahman, Tofazzel Hossain, Ram
Dhiraj Ram and Ajit Kumar, who were apprehended from Beadar Street in Kolkata
on May seven allegedly with the fake currency had revealed name of Madni as
their associate, they submitted. Taking the contention of the Kolkata police
into account, the court allowed their plea for transit remand with a direction
to produce him before the ACMM there on or before July one. 50-year-old Madni,
a resident of Bihar who acquired Nepalese citizenship, was arrested here on
June four. He is accused of acting as recruitment agent of the Pakistan-based
terror group.
