Delhi Police today recorded the statement of hardliner Hurriyat Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani in connection with the allegations that he had given a recommendation letter to arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant Athesham Malik for getting a Pakistani visa.

The investigators said, they had received a copy of the recommendation letter given by Geelani to Malik who went to Pakistan in December last year where he is alleged to have received training for fabrication of Improvised Explosive Devices. Malik, a laboratory technician, was earlier associated with Lashkar in Sopore in Jammu and Kashmir and was arrested in 2007 along with two others.