A court in New Delhi today remanded suspected Hizbul Mujahideen militant Sayyed Liyaqat Shah to 14 days judicial custody. He has been booked by Delhi Police for waging war against the country. Chief Metropolitan Manoj Kumar sent 45-year-old Shah, a resident of Jammu and Kashmir, to Tihar jail till April 12 after he was produced in the court before the expiry of his 15-day police remand.

The Delhi police in its application has submitted that Shah was apprehended on March 20 from the Indo-Nepal border area near Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh. It claimed that during his interrogation he has revealed that he is a trained militant of banned terror group Hizbul Mujahideen and was settled in Muzaffarabad in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).

Shah's arrest has generated conflicting versions from the Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir police. While Delhi police has claimed that with Shah's arrest they had foiled a suicide attack in the capital ahead of Holi, J-K police insisted that he was one of those who had exfiltrated in 1990s and had returned to India to surrender under the state's rehabilitation policy.