The
government Monday told the Supreme Court that Bihar engineer Fasih Mehmood was
under the detention of the Saudi Arabian authorities.
Additional
Solicitor General Gourab Banerjee told the apex court bench headed by Justice
P. Sathasivam that Saudi authorities have informed the CBI June 26 that he was
under their detention.
The court
directed the government to file a report on the status of Fasih within three
weeks. Fasih's wife Nikhat Parveen had filed an application seeking to know the
whereabouts of her husband.
Fasih, 35,
who hails from a village in Darbhanga district of Bihar, was reportedly
arrested in Saudi Arabia May 14 for suspected terror links in India.
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