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Afzal accompanied Pak ultra to buy
car involved in Parliament attack

Jaish-e-Mohammed militant Mohammed Afzal, a key conspirator in the Parliament attack case, on Friday admitted before a Delhi court that he had accompanied a Pakistani terrorist to purchase the Ambassador car in which five terrorists stormed the Parliament House on December 13.

When Afzal's counsel, during the cross-examination of a witness before Designated Judge S N Dhingra, said his client had not accompanied the terrorist to purchase the car, he disagreed with him.

Afzal said he went to the shop of the witness, Harpal Singh, proprietor of Lucky Motors in Karol Bagh.

Identifying Afzal in the court, Singh said he had come with a person named Aashiq Ahmed Khan to purchase the car and had signed as a witness.

Singh said when he heard car number DL-3CJ-1527 had been involved in the attack on Parliament, he met the SHO of the area, G L Mehta, who took him to Gate No 11 where the car was lying. Singh said it was the same car which he had sold on December 11, 2001.

Singh later also identified one of the five dead terrorists as Aashiq Ahmed Khan when he was taken to the spot in the Parliament House where the five bodies were lying.

Investigations later revealed that Aashiq Ahmed Khan's real name was Mohammed and in his group he was referred to as Leader.

Singh said Ashiq Khan, as a proof of his identity, had furnished an I-card of a computer institute but had not given his local address.

"I had asked Aashiq Khan his local address but he said he had none," Singh said.

Investigations have since revealed that the I-card too was fake.

Besides Singh, the court on Friday recorded the statements of five more witnesses -- Mathew George, Dheeraj Singh, Satbir Singh, Raghbir Singh and Harish Chandra Jaggi -- connected with the sale and purchase of the car.

George, an official of a private financing and leasing company, which was the first owner of the car, in his official capacity was involved in auctioning the car.

He said the car was sold to Dheeraj Singh, a peon in his office.

Dheeraj Singh said he sold the car to one Satbir Singh and handed over to him all documents of the car.

Satbir Singh in turn sold the car to a garage mechanic, Raghbir Singh alias Veera.

Veera sold the car to the proprietor of Jaggi Motors in Karol Bagh, Harsih Chandra Jaggi.

Jaggi said he gave the car to Lucky Motors since it was purchased in partnership.

PTI

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