11-23-2007, 08:54 PM
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Zeenews Bureau
Lucknow, Nov 23: State intelligence agencies are investigating if the blasts in the court premises of three Uttar Pradesh cities, in which 14 people died, was in retaliation to the lawyers` assault on the JeM militants, police sources said.
The serial blasts on Friday in the civil court premises of three cities in which 14 people died come close on the heels of the roughing up of the three JeM militants, who has planned to kidnap Rahul Gandhi, in the session court premises in Lucknow last Saturday.
The JeM terrorists were roughed up by the agitated lawyers who almost succeeded in snatching them from the security personnel accompanying them in the court.
shouting slogans that the militants be hanged, the lawyers surrounded them and the police and PAC personnel had a tough time in taking them to safety.
<b>Five militants, who were arrested in connection with the July 2005 attack on the Ram Janambhoomi complex at Ayodhya, had also failed to secure a lawyer as the Faizabad Bar Association had barred the lawyers to represent them. </b>
Unavailability of a legal representative resulted in repeated adjournments of the matter and things had come to such a pass that the authorities had approached the district and High Court to shift the trial to some other place.
All aspects of the blasts are being investigated, including this angle, said a top police official on being asked whether courts might have been targeted as retaliation.
Former president of Avadh Bar Association, Ashok Nigam, said the serial blasts were aimed at undermining the faith of the people in the judiciary.
Local lawyers said the JeM militants would not be allowed to enter the court here. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bal Mukund, had to go to the district jail to hear the remand application of the police early this week.
<b>Huji suspected behind serial blasts </b>
Banned Harkat-Ul-Jehadi Islamia (Huji) is believed to be behind the todayâs serial blasts.
Sources in the security agencies said the terror strike could be seen as a revenge by the banned outfit for the assault on its members.
They said Jaish could have sought the help of Huji as both the outfits followed the Deoband sect of Islam.
Huji, which is being mainly run from Bangaldesh, has managed to establish cells in the Uttar Pradesh and that the outfit was responsible for previous major terror attacks.
All three court premises in Lucknow, Faizabad and Varanasi, targeted today by the militants, had seen an incident of manhandling of militants or activists of anti-Ram temple in Ayodhya by lawyers.
Faizabad court premises was witness to an altercation between activists of a Babri Masjid Organisation and lawyers. The local bar association had banned its advocates from taking up their case.
<b>The court premises in Varanasi was witness last year to beating of a Waliullah Khan, the main accused in the Sankat Mochan temple explosions. </b>
In a related development, an outfit by the name of al-Hind Mujahideen had claimed responsibility about the attacks and sent emails to some media houses.Â
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Zeenews Bureau
Lucknow, Nov 23: State intelligence agencies are investigating if the blasts in the court premises of three Uttar Pradesh cities, in which 14 people died, was in retaliation to the lawyers` assault on the JeM militants, police sources said.
The serial blasts on Friday in the civil court premises of three cities in which 14 people died come close on the heels of the roughing up of the three JeM militants, who has planned to kidnap Rahul Gandhi, in the session court premises in Lucknow last Saturday.
The JeM terrorists were roughed up by the agitated lawyers who almost succeeded in snatching them from the security personnel accompanying them in the court.
shouting slogans that the militants be hanged, the lawyers surrounded them and the police and PAC personnel had a tough time in taking them to safety.
<b>Five militants, who were arrested in connection with the July 2005 attack on the Ram Janambhoomi complex at Ayodhya, had also failed to secure a lawyer as the Faizabad Bar Association had barred the lawyers to represent them. </b>
Unavailability of a legal representative resulted in repeated adjournments of the matter and things had come to such a pass that the authorities had approached the district and High Court to shift the trial to some other place.
All aspects of the blasts are being investigated, including this angle, said a top police official on being asked whether courts might have been targeted as retaliation.
Former president of Avadh Bar Association, Ashok Nigam, said the serial blasts were aimed at undermining the faith of the people in the judiciary.
Local lawyers said the JeM militants would not be allowed to enter the court here. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bal Mukund, had to go to the district jail to hear the remand application of the police early this week.
<b>Huji suspected behind serial blasts </b>
Banned Harkat-Ul-Jehadi Islamia (Huji) is believed to be behind the todayâs serial blasts.
Sources in the security agencies said the terror strike could be seen as a revenge by the banned outfit for the assault on its members.
They said Jaish could have sought the help of Huji as both the outfits followed the Deoband sect of Islam.
Huji, which is being mainly run from Bangaldesh, has managed to establish cells in the Uttar Pradesh and that the outfit was responsible for previous major terror attacks.
All three court premises in Lucknow, Faizabad and Varanasi, targeted today by the militants, had seen an incident of manhandling of militants or activists of anti-Ram temple in Ayodhya by lawyers.
Faizabad court premises was witness to an altercation between activists of a Babri Masjid Organisation and lawyers. The local bar association had banned its advocates from taking up their case.
<b>The court premises in Varanasi was witness last year to beating of a Waliullah Khan, the main accused in the Sankat Mochan temple explosions. </b>
In a related development, an outfit by the name of al-Hind Mujahideen had claimed responsibility about the attacks and sent emails to some media houses.Â
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