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Sacked Haj panel chief to be tried under Official Secrets Act

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Utkarsh Anand

Posted online: Sunday , April 27, 2008 at 03:29:25
Updated: Sunday , April 27, 2008 at 03:55:31


New Dehi, April 26 Sacked Udaipur’s Haj Committee chief Moinuddin Rizvi is set to face trial along with a Pakistan national in connection with an espionage case as a Delhi court has framed penal charges against the duo under the Official Secrets Act.

Additional Sessions Judge H S Sharma recently ordered for initiating the trial of the accused by starting the recording of the prosecution witnesses in the case from August 4.

Rizvi, a former UP PWD official based at Udaipur in Rajasthan, and Mohd Yusuf, a Pakistan national, have been charged for their alleged offences of spying and executing a criminal conspiracy prejudicial to the safety and interests of India.

On May 25 last year, the Special Cell had arrested 62-year-old Rizvi on charges of handing over sensitive maps of military installations to the Pakistani agent Yusuf.

Rizvi was arrested from hotel Romana near Jama Masjid here when he was allegedly handing over the maps to Yusuf. His son, Ghulam Dastgir, was also present with him.

Three days after his arrest, he was removed from his post by the Rajasthan Haj Committee.After a series of raids at Rizvi’s residence in Gujarat and Hyderabad, the police had also arrested Rizvi’s son Dastgir, claiming there were sufficient evidence pointing to his complicity in the espionage network as well.

Dastgir was, however, exonerated of all the charges by the court on March 28 for want of evidence. As per the police, during his visit to Pakistan in 2006, Rizvi had met a few persons in Karachi, who convinced him to hand over the maps of military installations in Udaipur and Bikaner. Meanwhile, Rizvi, who has been in custody since his arrest, and his son Dastgir moved applications in the court for returning their personal articles recovered during their searches.

ASJ Sharma then directed the Station House Officer (SHO) of the Special Cell to return their articles to them on the next date as the same were not required for investigation anymore.

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