Mumbai: The lone terrorist captured from the Udhampur terror attack, Mohammed Naved Yakub, made a request to the special court in Jammu to speak to his parents across the border.
According to reports, he said that he is repeatedly reminded of his parents and that he wants to talk to them. "I have already given the number to them," Naved said in court.
Naved expressed his desire after Showkat and Khursheed, his two alleged local accomplices, made similar demands. NIA informed the judge that the number provided by him was invalid and appears to have been disconnected, but he persisted saying that he also had numbers of his friends in Pakistan and that he could contact his parents through them.
The trio were produced on Thursday in front of special Judge Y P Kotwal who remanded them to judicial custody for 14 days.
The NIA told the court that some more people involved in the Udhampur attack were on the run and it was looking for them to unearth the larger conspiracy.
The twenty-year-old, a resident of Faisalabad in Pakistan, along with his accomplice Mohammed Noman alias Momin had carried out a terror strike on a BSF convoy on August five in Udhampur killing two personnel of the border guarding force. Momin was killed in retaliatory fire while Naved was foxed and nabbed by two villagers whom he wanted to kidnap.
Naved was extensively questioned for over a fortnight by NIA and sleuths of intelligence agencies during which he identified the truck driver Khursheed Ahmed Bhat. Interrogation has revealed that the terrorists were trained in Let camps frequented by 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed.
