Suspected IS operative hurls shoe at judge in Kolkata court
Tuesday - February 4, 2020 10:38 pm ,
Category : INDIA
Kolkata, Feb 4 (IANS) Suspected IS operative Mohammad Masiuddin alias Musa created a flutter by hurling s shoe at the judge during a court hearing here on Tuesday, prompting the National Investigative Agency to seek his in-camera trial.
Musa, who was arrested in 2016 for having alleged links with foreign extremists including the Islamic State (IS) and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), suddenly got agitated while making a submission to the judge in the NIA court. He bowed down, took off one of his shoes and threw it at the judge.The missile, however, missed the judge and hit a lawyer.Musa, who is now under NIA custody in the Presidency Jail here, had attacked the warden of the Alipore Central Correctional Home some time back, slashing his throat with a spoon that the militant had sharpened into a weapon.After Tuesday's incident, the NIA counsel pleaded to the judge to allow Musa to be tried from the prison through a video link.Musa was nabbed by CID on July 4, 2016, from aboard a train in Burdwan. The probe into his links with foreign militants was subsequently taken over by the National Investigation Agency.
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Musa, who was arrested in 2016 for having alleged links with foreign extremists including the Islamic State (IS) and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), suddenly got agitated while making a submission to the judge in the NIA court. He bowed down, took off one of his shoes and threw it at the judge.The missile, however, missed the judge and hit a lawyer.Musa, who is now under NIA custody in the Presidency Jail here, had attacked the warden of the Alipore Central Correctional Home some time back, slashing his throat with a spoon that the militant had sharpened into a weapon.After Tuesday's incident, the NIA counsel pleaded to the judge to allow Musa to be tried from the prison through a video link.Musa was nabbed by CID on July 4, 2016, from aboard a train in Burdwan. The probe into his links with foreign militants was subsequently taken over by the National Investigation Agency.
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