Indian Mujahideen (IM) co-founder Yasin Bhatkal’s aide Fasih Mahmood, who was deported from Saudi Arabia in 2012 for his alleged involvement in terror acts here, has been allegedly assaulted by a jail inmate inside the high security Tihar Jail.
Tihar Jail authorities said one of the inmates, Simran, who is an accused in a murder case and has been lodged in jail no. 2 assaulted Fasih on Friday evening in which he sustained injury on his leg.Fasih was brought before a city court on Saturday on a wheel chair in connection with the case of setting up of an alleged illegal arms factory here where he told the judge about the incident. Additional Sessions Judge Daya Prakash has asked the Tihar Jail authorities to submit a detailed report before it in the matter.
During the hearing, his counsel pleaded before the court that Fasih be treated in the AIIMS. The court asked the police to take him to the AIIMS for further treatment. Fasih, along with Bhatkal and several other members of the banned terror outfit, is an accused in the case in which a supplementary charge sheet was recently filed against Bhatkal and one of his close aides Asadullah Akhtar.
Meanwhile, the jail authorities said that after Simran had assaulted Fasih, the accused was taken to the Deen Dayal Upadhayay Hospital for medical check up. “Fasih was assaulted by Simran on Friday evening over some issue and later he was taken to DDU Hospital,” Tihar Jail spokesperson Sunil Gupta said.