A day after the Ghaziabad district court sentenced Waliullah Khan to death, a convict in the 2006 Varanasi serial blasts case, there was silence in his native village. Khan is a resident of Sarai Lily alias Khojapur village of Phulpur tehsil of Prayagraj.
On 7 March 2006, the first blast took place inside the Sankat Mochan temple and the second bomb took place outside the first class retiring room of Varanasi Cantonment railway station. On the same day a cooker bomb was also found near the railing of the railway crossing at Dashashwamedh police station. Khan was acquitted in the cooker bomb case due to insufficient evidence, while he was convicted in the other two.
The trial of the sedition case against Khan is also going on in the fast track court of Prayagraj and has reached the final stage. The next hearing is on June 27.
Khan was arrested on 18 April 2001 on charges of sedition based on a case registered against him at Phulpur police station. He was accused of waging war against the Indian government, of committing jihad and collecting literature in this regard.
Khan and his brothers Ubaid Ullah, Wasi Ullah and Uzair Alam were accused in the case. Another accused Mustaqeem has not been arrested so far, while Ubaid Ullah, Wasi Ullah and Uzair Alam are out on bail.
According to District Government Advocate (criminal) Gulab Chandra Agrahari, a total of 23 witnesses have been presented on behalf of the prosecution. While seven witnesses were produced from the defense side, one witness was also produced from Khan’s side. According to him, the first judge of the fast track court, Nisha Jha, is hearing the case. In this case, Khan could be sentenced to life imprisonment.
According to Gulab Chandra Agrahari, Khan was plotting to avenge the Babri Masjid demolition. Apart from his links with Salim Sajjad and Pappu, who were killed in Lucknow in an encounter with the police, his links with Pakistan’s terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammed were also exposed.
He has been presented several times in the district court of Prayagraj from Ghaziabad court.
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