NEW DELHI: Delhi High Court today directed the Superintendent of Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail to explain why books on homoeopathy, sought by the prime accused in 2006 Mumbai serial train blasts, could not be supplied to him.
Justice Rajiv Shakdher raised the query after the jail authorities informed the court that since the books sought by accused Ehtesham Qutubuddin Siddiqui were not supplied to it, they were unable to provide the publications to him.
The court also issued notice to Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy, Delhi, and sought its response by August 5 on why an inmate cannot be given access to the books.
The court has sought the council’s response as it had refused to provide the books to the accused under the Right to Information Act after which Siddiqui had moved the high court.
Siddiqui had written a letter to the Delhi High Court, which was converted into a writ petition, seeking a direction that he be provided 45 publications on homoeopathy free of cost in jail for studying as he was too poor to afford them.
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