Matin, a Harkat-ul-Ansar operative from Pakistan who was arrested in 1997 in Jammu and Kashmir, filed the petition before the court of additional district and session judge Mangal Prasad.
He was lodged in Bikaner jail till 2008 and was shifted to Dasna jail here in 2008 in connection with the trial in the Modi Nagar bomb blast case in which 16 people were killed and over 20 injured.
The court fixed November 27 as the next date of hearing.