New Delhi: The prosecution on Wednesday alleged before a Delhi court that the HUJI militants were in constant touch with their Pakistan-based handlers for hatching a conspiracy to kidnap cricketers Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly.
Presenting final arguments before Additional Sessions Judge Pinki, Public prosecutor Anita Hooda referred to the e-mail communication among six Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami (HUJI) terrorists and their offshore handlers.
"Through internet, all the accused were in constant touch with each other and they kept apprising each other about their future course of action," the prosecutor said.
She read out retrieved texts of such e-mails to drive home the point that they were part of the conspiracy.
They used code words in their communication to avoid detection, she said, adding words such as sasural and dulhan were used for jail and hostage respectively.
The advancing of final arguments in the case remained inconclusive and would continue on Wednesday.
Earlier, the prosecutor had alleged the HUJI militants, including three Pakistani nationals, had led police personnel to a place at Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh from where arms, ammunitions and explosives were recovered.
The three Pakistan-based militants had confessed that they conspired to kidnap cricketers for securing the release of two jailed HUJI terrorists Nasarullah Langrial and Abdul Rahim who were then lodged in Indian jails, she said.
The prosecution had referred to confessional statements of Pakistani nationals Tariq Mohammed, Arshad Khan and Ashfaq Ahmed.
Their statements were recorded on February 13, 2002, by a senior police officer after they were arrested at Nizamuddin railway station here on January 31 the same year, minutes before boarding an Agra-bound train.
Police had recovered one pistol and seven cartridges from their possession.
The plot to abduct the cricketers did not succeed as the terrorists could not get the logistic support to execute their design in 2002, police have claimed in the chargesheet.
Besides three Pakistan-based terrorists, three Indians Mufti Israr, Ghulam Qadir Bhatt and Ghulam Mohd Darwere were also allegedly part of the conspiracy.
All the militants, including key accused Jalaluddin who was declared a proclaimed offender during the trial, had also planned to attack the Bhaba Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai and assassinate former President A P J Abdul Kalam during his Patna visit in 2002, Hooda has said.
They have been booked under tough anti-terror law POTA, IPC and the Explosives Act which provide for maximum sentence of death penalty.
They are charged with hatching conspiracy to wage a war against the state and keeping explosives.
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