Red Fort attack case takes a quirky turn

NEW DELHI: The defence counsel of Arif, the main accused in the Red Fort attack case, told the court on Tuesday that the mobile phone which was found on the suspect showed records of calls made to the Delhi Police and the then chief secretary of Nagaland, among others.

The court of justices RS Sodhi and PK Bhasin was told that Arif was never carrying a mobile phone when he was arrested in December 22, 2000 and it was planted later to frame him. 

“The mobile phone theory of the police is a farce because if Arif is a terrorist then he would not have spoken to policemen who had carried out the investigations,” said the defence advocate.

Arif, who is a suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba militant, has been given death sentence by a lower court. The defence said the prosecution claim that police recovered the phone from Arif is false. Police had claimed that they had traced the mobile number through surveillance and had arrested Arif on the basis of the phone found on him.