Diwali blast accused set free

New Delhi, Jan 24 (UNI) A local court today discharged a man allegedly involved in the 2005 Diwali multiple bomb blasts here following a closure report filed by the police.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Seema Maini discharged Tariq Ahmad Dar, who languished in judicial custody for three months, as the police was not able to prove any allegation against him.

The accused had been deported to India from Bangladesh in late 2006. The authorities suspected him to be a terrorist owing allegiance to LeT.

Dar was arrested in September by the Bangladesh Rapid Action Force for possession of forged travel documents. He was arrested by the Special Cell for reported terror links in the city after deportation.

However, an electronic channel claimed that police had arrested the wrong man, since he was a star in Dhaka's advertising circuit.

From being a face that dominated hoardings in Dhaka, Dar was accused of human trafficking, spying for India and a terror conduit across two nations.

With a suspect in the New Delhi blasts of 2005 also going by the same name it was a case of mistaken identity, the channel added.

During his imprisonment, Dar's father Gazi Ghulam Nabi Dar ran a campaign for the release of his son and also enlisted the support of several Kashmiri politicians.

UNI