2000 terrorist attack on Red Fort
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2000 terrorist attack on Red Fort is a terrorist attack on Red Fort in Delhi
in India
on 22 December 2000.It was carried out by terrorist group Lashkar-e-Toiba
that killed two soldiers and one civilian.
The Delhi High Court on 13 September 2007 upheld the Lashkar-e-Toiba militant from Pakistan
Mohammad Arif alias Ashfaq's death sentence.However 6 other convicts in the case including Mohd Ashfaq's wife Rehmana Yousuf Farooqui have been acquitted by the High Court. On 10th August, 2011, the Supreme Court upheld the Delhi High court judgment, leaving Mercy plea to the President as the only last resort for Arif.
http://in.rediff.com/news/2000/dec/22fort1.htm
The army claimed that the two militants jumped the lower walls of Red Fort from the rear, close to the Ring Road. Eyewitnesses have told investigators that the militants were wearing trousers and jackets and carrying AK-47s.
http://in.rediff.com/news/2000/dec/23jo1.htm
Next day the Indian Army recovered three magazines of an AK-47 rifle, 77 shells and 29 live rounds of ammunition from the Red Fort area, while the Delhi police has recovered a loaded AK- 47 rifle from Vijay Ghat, the samadhi of Lal Bahadur Shastri located close to the fort. http://in.rediff.com/news/2000/dec/23jo1.htm
In aftermath of this attack Let even threatened to attack on Indian Prime Minister's office.
http://in.rediff.com/news/2000/dec/26pm2.htm
Charges against 11 were filed in Red fort attack case. And a prime witness turned hostile.
Arrests
http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/may/20delhi.htm
Traditionally, the Prime Minister of India hoists the national flag at Red Fort on Independence Day, thus red fort is considered as a place of national importance in India.
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
on 22 December 2000.It was carried out by terrorist group Lashkar-e-Toiba
Lashkar-e-Toiba
Lashkar-e-Taiba – also transliterated as Lashkar-i-Tayyaba, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Lashkar-i-Taiba, Lashkar Taiba or LeT – is one of the largest and most active militant Islamist terrorist organizations in South Asia, operating mainly from Pakistan.It was founded by Hafiz Muhammad...
that killed two soldiers and one civilian.
The Delhi High Court on 13 September 2007 upheld the Lashkar-e-Toiba militant from Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
Mohammad Arif alias Ashfaq's death sentence.However 6 other convicts in the case including Mohd Ashfaq's wife Rehmana Yousuf Farooqui have been acquitted by the High Court. On 10th August, 2011, the Supreme Court upheld the Delhi High court judgment, leaving Mercy plea to the President as the only last resort for Arif.
Sequence of Events
The high security zone Red fort was stormed by two LeT militants on Friday 22 December 2000 who opened fire in red fort Old Delhi, in the response the military personally killed both the militants on the spot.http://in.rediff.com/news/2000/dec/22fort1.htm
The army claimed that the two militants jumped the lower walls of Red Fort from the rear, close to the Ring Road. Eyewitnesses have told investigators that the militants were wearing trousers and jackets and carrying AK-47s.
http://in.rediff.com/news/2000/dec/23jo1.htm
Next day the Indian Army recovered three magazines of an AK-47 rifle, 77 shells and 29 live rounds of ammunition from the Red Fort area, while the Delhi police has recovered a loaded AK- 47 rifle from Vijay Ghat, the samadhi of Lal Bahadur Shastri located close to the fort. http://in.rediff.com/news/2000/dec/23jo1.htm
In aftermath of this attack Let even threatened to attack on Indian Prime Minister's office.
http://in.rediff.com/news/2000/dec/26pm2.htm
Charges against 11 were filed in Red fort attack case. And a prime witness turned hostile.
Arrests
http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/may/20delhi.htm
Traditionally, the Prime Minister of India hoists the national flag at Red Fort on Independence Day, thus red fort is considered as a place of national importance in India.
External links
- The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
- http://in.rediff.com/news/redfort.htm