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Judicial custody for Parliament attack case accused
By Our Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI, JAN. 5. A Special Court trying cases under the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO) today remanded all four accused in the Parliament attack case to 14 days' judicial custody amid a submission by the lone woman accused before the court that she was innocent.
Afsan Guru alias Navjot Sandhu, wife of Shaukat Hussain, another co-accused in the case, broke down before the Special Judge, S.N. Dhingra, and submitted: ``I was not aware of the activities of my husband, and if I had any inkling of his involvement in the conspiracy I would have divorced him.''
Calming her down, the Judge said: ``Weeping is no solution to your problem. Solution is something else. Mothers of those who were killed in the terrorist attack are also grieved.''
However, the Judge allowed her request to direct the Jail Superintendent to permit her to sit in the sun for an hour every day in the jail premises as well as allow her husband to meet her inside the prison for five minutes every Saturday.
The four are facing prosecution under POTO. Confessional statements under the Ordinance are admissible as evidence in a court.
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