Mumbai
Mirror: Mumbai: Friday, 27 March 2015.
The State
Information Commission in Bangalore was left flabbergasted after a suspected
Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist named in several cases, including the 2008
Delhi serial blasts, was brought in as an RTI applicant.
Terror
suspect Akbar Ismail Choudhary, who is currently lodged in Arthur Road jail,
was escorted by Mumbai police to Bangalore in a train to answer a summons from
the SIC on Thursday. Choudhary had filed an RTI application in May 2014 seeking
to know the status of the case registered with Ullal police station in
Karnataka in 2008.
In the RTI
application, Choudhary claimed the Karnataka case hasn't progressed even as he
was arrested and sent to jail in Maharashtra in connection with another
terror-related case. The application was filed through Arthur Road jail
authorities, and forwarded to Karnataka police. The SIC had issued summons to
both parties to appear before it on Thursday.
Choudhary was
brought to Court No 5 in the SIC building escorted by two officers, six
constables including two armed Mumbai police personnel. A KSRP platoon, usually
deployed in law and order situations, was pressed into service before his
arrival, while another 10-odd local policemen provided additional cover.
The
commission brass, which initially had no inkling of the applicant's background,
treated it like any other case, only to change their mind by the end and
deciding to switch to video conferencing from now on.
Information
Commissioner Krishna Murthy told Mumbai police that Choudhary should not be
brought again even if a summons was sent to the prison. He said the case would
be strictly dealt through video conferencing from now on.
He later asked
the Mumbai police to list their names along with signatures, and asked them to
take him safely to Arthur Road jail and inform him once they reached.
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