Three days after an accused in the Aurangabad arms haul case allegedly escaped from the custody of West Bengal police while he was being brought here, his mother has written to the Aurangabad police commissioner alleging that it was "a fabricated story".
"This is a fabricated story prepared by the police and I don't believe it," said Qamar Sheikh, mother of Sheikh Abdul Nayeem.
He could have been, instead, killed in an encounter by the police, said the letter.
"My son was under treatment for kidney disease and had become weak (to have fled). Given all the circumstances there is a possibility that he may have been killed in an encounter or illegally detained and as a mother I fear for his life and safety," said Qamar.
It was unbelievable that after cooperating with police all along he will run away when he had been acquitted in two cases and was granted bail in another. Trial of two other cases against him is to be completed in three months (as per the order of the Bombay High Court), the letter said.
According to the police Nayeem jumped off the Howrah-Mumbai mail between Kharsiya and Shakti railway stations in Chhattisgrah on Sunday.
Qamar has sent copies of the letter to Bombay High Court, Calcutta High Court and Andhra Pradesh High Court and the trial court here.
On May 8, 2006, a Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad chased a Tata Sumo and an Indica car on Chandwad-Manmad highway near Aurangabad in Maharashtra, and arrested three terror suspects and seized RDX, AK-47 rifles and live rounds.
The car was allegedly driven by Lashkar-e-Toaiba operative and key plotter of (subsequent) 26/11 terror strikes Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal, who managed to give police the slip. He was arrested later in 2012.
