HC rejects blasts accused's petition against prison transfer

Bombay High Court today rejected petition filed by a convict of 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case challenging transfer from Aurangabad Central Prison to Nashik Central Prison.
Nasir Abdul Kadar Keval alias Nasir Dhakla, who is serving a life sentence, had challenged the order of DIG (Prisons) in July 2012 transferring him to Nashik.
According to the authorities, it was necessitated by administrative as well as security reasons, as Dhakla and some other inmates had got into a fight inside Nashik prison.
Dhakla's petition said no inquiry was ever conducted to verify the allegation that he had got into a fight.

The division bench of Justices P V Hardas and Mridula Bhatkar, however, refused to grant him relief.
Nasir, according to the CBI, had attended conspiracy meetings in Pakistan before the blasts, and was present at the Shekadi coast in Raigad during the landing of RDX.