Police seek deportation of 2 Pak convicts after end of prison term

Mumbai: Following an appeal by the Pakistani embassy, the Mumbai Police have sought an order from the court to deport two Pakistan nationals who complete their eight-year prison term next month in a 1999 case of dacoity and possession of arms.
Mohammed Asif and Mohammed Rafiq Haji, both Pakistan nationals, were convicted in the 1999 robbery case. Their co-accused—Abdul Latif and Bhopal Mal—are accused in the Indian Airlines flight IC-814 hijacking case and presently facing trial in a Patiala court.
After waiting for about eight years for the trial to begin, Asif and Haji made applications under the plea bargaining chapter of the Criminal Procedure Code and pleaded guilty.
According to the prosecution, two months before the IC-814 hijack the four accused stole a Maruti van at Orlem in Malad on October 6, 1999 and later used it to rob over Rs 7 lakh from the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank in Borivali. According to the chargesheet, the Crime Branch also found them in possession of two AK-56 rifles, seven grenades and four rocket launchers which were intended “to endanger life of the persons or to cause injury to property in India”.
16/11/07 Menaka Rao/Expressindia.com

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