Delhi Police on Satruday claimed suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist Shahzad, arrested from Uttar Pradesh, confessed to firing at late Inspector M C Sharma during the encounter at Batla House on September 19, 2008, a week after the Delhi serial blasts which killed 26 people.
Sources claimed Shahzad allegedly opened fire at Sharma using a .32 revolver which he later threw away in a canal. Police could not recover the revolver despite taking him to the spot.
Sources said 21-year-old Shahzad was in touch with four members of the terror module when he was in hiding and investigators were trying to locate them. "He was in touch with them over internet," a senior police official said.
Sources claimed Shahzad has taken the names of at least three politicians, including a former MLA from Azamgarh, who allegedly helped him to flee from Delhi after the Batla House encounter.
During interrogation, Shahzad reportedly told police that after fleeing from Batla House, he first went to a the Shaheenbagh house of a UP politician believed to be a former MLA. He allegedly took some money from him. From Shaheenbagh, he and Junaid, another person whom police claimed to have fled from Batla House, went to Aligarh from where they went to Bulandshahr. Sources claimed Shahzad then headed towards Lucknow and later went to his village in Azamgarh from where he went to Jaipur. "From Jaipur, he went to Mumbai and later returned to his village where he was hiding," the official said.
Police also conducted raids at several places mentioned by Shahzad to piece together "the riddle", sources said.
Meanwhile, a Delhi court remanded Shahzad to 14 days judicial custody in connection with the Batla House encounter case. Metropolitan magistrate Surya Malik Grover sent accused Shahzad to jail till February 20 after the crime branch submitted that his custodial interrgation was no more required in the case.
