Delhi HC blast: Custody of Amir Abbas Dev extended till Feb 27

The judicial custody of suspected terrorist Amir Abbas Dev, arrested for his alleged role in the blast outside the Delhi High Court premises in September last year, was on Monday extended by two weeks by a Delhi court.

Dev was produced before District Judge HS Sharma during an in-chamber hearing after the expiry of his two-week judicial custody.

According to court sources, the District Judge extended till February 27 the judicial custody of Dev after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) said the probe in the case was going on.

Dev, a native of Jammu and Kashmir, was arrested by the NIA on the charge of sending terror e-mails to media groups after the September 7 blast which killed 17 people and injured over 90.

Another co-accused in the case Wasim Akram Malik, who is currently in jail under judicial custody, will be produced before the court on Tuesday.

A magistrate had earlier recorded Dev's statement under Section 164 of the CrPC in an in-camera proceeding.

A statement recorded by a magistrate under section 164 of the CrPC bars the accused from resiling from it on his depositions during the trial and make him liable for prosecution for perjury if he does so.

Regarding Malik, the probe agency had said that he was a 'key link' in the conspiracy behind the blast outside gate number 5 of the High Court.