After spending ten months in jail for his alleged role in the 2002 bomb blast case in Mumbai, a techie from Hyderabad, on 8 August, has been discharged of all the accusations. According to the Mumbai police, TajulKazi Siddiqui was the main conspirator in the 2002 Ghatkopar blast case in Mumbai which had claimed two lives and left around 49 injured. For a decade, he has been on stretch and it was only November 2012 when a team of Mumbai police arrested him from Hyderabad and booked him under stringent sections of Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA). However, he got on bail in April 2013. Mr. Siddiqui was a senior employee with HCL.
On 1 August, the Mumbai police submitted an application in the special POTA court saying it had‘no evidence’ against Mr. Siddiqui to prosecute him. “After studying the mirror image of his laptop’s hard disk, no evidence of his involvement in the case or any other objectionable matter was found,” reads the application.