Mossad didn’t interrogate Kazmi: Cops

NEW DELHI: Israeli intelligence agency Mossad has not questioned Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested in connection with last month’s Israeli diplomat’s car bombing, the Delhi Police told a local court on Tuesday, refuting the journalist’s claim.
The special cell of the Delhi Police told a trial court that “no agency of any other country has yet come to interrogate the accused”.
Filing a written reply before chief metropolitan magistrate Vinod Yadav, Delhi Police said if any request is made by foreign agencies in the future than they will have to allow it. “India is a part of the international convention fighting against terrorism and as per the convention we will have to allow other investigating agencies to interrogate the accused,” said Delhi police counsel Rajiv Mohan.
In its reply, the police stated that no agency from any other country till date had come to interrogate Kazmi. “The applicant has merely shown his apprehension without giving any instance. Yet, it is undertaken that all the provisions will be carries out after adopting the due procedure established by law,” the reply stated.
During the arguments, Kazmi’s counsel Vijay Aggarawal said, “Not only foreign agencies but also the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and the Intelligence Bureau (IB) are interrogating him even as his custody has been given only to the Delhi Police.”
To this the Delhi Police said, that no such interrogation by any other agency had taken place. They however added that there was no bar on RAW and IB interrogating him. Kazmi was arrested in connection with the bomb attack on an Israeli embassy vehicle on March 7 and was sent to 20 day police custody.
Responding to Aggarwal’s allegation that cops of the special cell were breaking rules by not wearing their uniforms, the police’s reply stated, “It is submitted that special cell officials work on cases of a highly sensitive nature especially operations against culprits involved in terrorist activities…the officials of special cell are required to wear plain clothes.”