Delhi HC blast leaves family of oldest victim in shock

New Delhi, Sep 8 (ANI): Family members of 87-year-old Nizamuddin Master, the oldest victim of Delhi High Court blast, are in deep shock over his death.

His son, Shahzauddin, who was in New Delhi to collect his father's body from the mortuary at the Lady Hardinge Hospital, re-iterated that his father was the head of the family and the sole decision-maker.

"He used to look after everything as he was the head of the family. We don't know anything. He handled everything relating to all his daughters and sons. He used to command everybody," said Shahzauddin.

"All of this has happened so suddenly, that we are in a lot of pain. The whole family is still in a state of shock. We are here and family is waiting for the body in Meerut (Uttar Pradesh) since yesterday," he added.

Nizamuddin, who resided in old Delhi's Daryaganj region, was working as a Munshi (clerk) in a Meerut court visited the capital regularly to meet his lawyer, so that he could get his grandson free, who is accused in a murder case.

Police have detained three people for questioning, including the owner of an internet cafe in the Kishtwar region of Jammu and Kashmir over an email allegedly claiming responsibility for a deadly bombing of the Delhi High Court.

The authorities said they are investigating a claim of responsibility allegedly made by the Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami (HuJI) militant group-an al Qaeda affiliate with bases in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Ilyas Kashmiri, who US authorities believe was recently killed in Pakistan, was the head of the group and senior al Qaeda member.

Delhi Police also released sketches of two suspects with the hopes of the public reciprocating to nab them at the earliest.

In an e-mail to India's National Investigation Agency (NIA), the South Asian militant group, of HuJI called on India to repeal the death sentence of a man convicted for his role in an attack on the Indian Parliament House in 2001 and warned it would otherwise target major courts in the country.

Earlier in May, a low-intensity blast outside the same High Court in Delhi triggered panic but injured no one. (ANI)