Delhi court allows IM member Yasin Bhatkal to speak to ailing mother via video call

The justice besides imposed definite conditions connected Bhatkal, who is successful Tihar Jail – helium would lone talk to his parent successful Hindi and the jailhouse authorities were astatine liberty to grounds the speech for “security” purposes.

Bhatkal, who was represented by counsel M S Khan, Prashant Prakash, Quasar Khan and Rahul Sahani, argued that helium needed to sojourn his parent arsenic the top enslaved successful this satellite is that betwixt a parent and a son. He besides said that it was his mother’s privation to conscionable him arsenic she had a bosom ailment.

The counsel had besides requested the tribunal for video conferencing support to talk with his parent for 3 days a week.

Bhatkal allegedly established the IM’s Darbhanga, Delhi and Ranchi modules, and was liable for a bid of attacks, including the German Bakery blast successful Pune, the Delhi Jama Masjid shooting, and the Varanasi blast (all successful 2010), the 2011 Mumbai bombings, and the 2013 Hyderabad blasts.

According to the police, Bhatkal was radicalised erstwhile helium was 17. In 2013, Bhatkal was allegedly arrested from Nepal on with different IM operative Assadullah Akhtar. His interrogation led to the recognition of respective apical IM operatives, the constabulary had said.