New Delhi, Oct 21: The parents of MBBS student, Wasim Akram Malik, who was arrested by the India’s National Investigating Agency (NIA) on September 7 Delhi High Court Blast, have said that their son was being pressured to own the responsibility for the incident.
Reyaz Malik and his wife Shameema, said that they were summoned by National Investigation Agency sleuths of Indian on October 17, are in the dark about the welfare of their son Wasim, who was studying medicine in Bangladesh.
They said that their son was being pressured by the NIA officials to accept the responsibility of the blast by giving a confessional statement.
"We last spoke to Wasim on October 19 when NIA officials made him to talk to his mother. In that brief conversation, our son told us that the policemen. The couple quoted their relatives, who saw him recently in Kishtawar when he was taken by NIA officials, saying that he could barely walk because of intense torture.
" Malik, a Jammu and Kashmir Government employee, told media men "Our son also told us that NIA officials wanted to pin the entire blame on his 16-year-old younger brother Junaid Akram who is missing for past one year," he said.
Meanwhile, the National Investigation Agency is probing the sources of income of the family of Wasim Malik.
Reliable sources have disclosed to daily Indian news paper The Tribune that the NIA team wants to know how Riyaz Malik, who is posted as private secretary to a senior officer of the NHPC, Kishtwar, and his wife, a schoolteacher, are financing the medical education of a son and a daughter, while their another daughter is pursuing LLB at the University of Jammu.
The NIA is checking the bank accounts of Wasim’s family and trying to find out how it is maintaining houses at Bathindi in Jammu and in Kishtwar. The sources say the agency is verifying bank statements to ascertain the deposits in the names of Wasim’s family.
A statement of Wasim Malik’s account with Jammu and Kashmir Bank for September shows four deposits between Rs 5,000 and Rs 15,000. The sources say though deposits are not big.
Wasim’s family said that it has proofs to satisfy the Indian investigating agency that its sources of income are clean. They maintain that Wasim is being framed in the case. They also deny that Wasim’s younger brother, Junaid, who has been missing since August, is a Hizbul Mujahideen commander.