Court orders property attachment of absconding IM terrorists

A court here has ordered the initiation of attachment of property of two alleged Indian Mujahideen terrorists who managed to escape after a controversial encounter which claimed life of the decorated Delhi police officer Mohan Chand Sharma here last September.

"Let the process under section 83 (attachment of property of person absconding) of the Criminal Procedure Code be issued against both accused Ariz Khan and Shahjad Ahmed," additional chief metropolitan magistrate Navin Arora of Patiala House Courts here said.

Ariz Khan and Shahjad Khan, both hailing from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, first entered into a gunbattle with Delhi Police on September 19 last year at L-18 Batla House flat in Jamia Nagar locality here and later gave them the slip, police alleged.

Besides police inspector Mohan Chand Sharma, Atif Ameen, the prime accused of Delhi serial blasts and co-accused Sajid, were also killed in the encounter. Mohd Saif was the sole Indian Mujahideen suspect who was caught alive, the crime branch of Delhi Police said.

The police, which has so far failed to nab the two alleged terrorists carrying Rs one lakh each as reward on their heads, recently got the proclamation order from the court against them.