The Anti Terrorist Court (No II) on Wednesday rejected the bail application of Rashid Rauf, | He further contended that the charges of impersonation, deception and carrying 29 bottles of hydrogen peroxide were bailable offences as the police only assumed he was carrying the liquid to make bombs. |
Rashid RaufÂ’s counsel pleaded that his client had not been arrested in the Islamabad Airport police station precincts as registered in the FIR, and was in fact in Bahawalpur at the time. He further contended that the charges of impersonation, deception and carrying 29 bottles of hydrogen peroxide were bailable offences as the police only assumed he was carrying the liquid to make bombs. Public Prosecutor Raja Abdul Qayyum maintained that the accused had confessed to conspiring to make bombs during interrogation, and he was admittedly involved in the attempt to bomb US-bound airplanes from London.