Kerala High Court Acquits Alleged Lashkar Operative Nazeer In Kozhikode Blasts Case
NDTV
Nazeer, suspected kingpin of Islamic terrorist activities in south India, was arrested in 2009 and he is currently in jail in connection with various terror-related cases.
In a setback to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the Kerala High Court on Thursday acquitted alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative Thadiyantevida Nazeer and Shafas, convicted by the NIA court here in 2011 in connection with the 2006 Kozhikode twin blasts case .
The court allowed the appeal filed by first accused Nazeer and fourth accused Shafas against the life imprisonment sentence awarded by the NIA special court.
A Division Bench, comprising Justices K Vinod Chandran and Ziyad Rahman, also declined the appeal filed by the NIA challenging the NIA court's order acquitting two other accused in the case--Abdul Halim and Abubacker Yusuf.
Nazeer and the other accused were charged with conspiring, planning and executing the bomb blasts in Kozhikode KSRTC and mofussil bus stands on March 3, 2006.
