New Delhi: The Special Court hearing the Parliament attack case, in which four accused including two alleged Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militants and a suspended lecturer of the Delhi University were tried under Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA), on December 10 deferred pronouncement of its judgement to December 16.

Special Judge S N Dhingra adjourned the judgement for December 16 saying, "Some more work has to be done on it."

The Court on November 25 had reserved its order and fixed December 11 for pronouncing the judgement.

The alleged JeM militants Mohad Afzal, Shaukat Hussain Guru, his wife Navjot Sandhu alias Afsan Guru and S A R Geelani, suspended lecturer of Delhi University, were chargesheeted for the attack on Parliament on December 13, 2001.

All the accused were present in the Court except Sandhu, who has been exempted from personal appearance.

The Court had framed charges against them for allegedly attempting to kill the Vice- President, Prime Minister, Central Ministers, Members of Parliament (MPs) and several other VIPs.

They were also charged with threatening the unity, integrity, security and sovereignty of the country by waging war against it and committing several other offences under POTA, Indian Penal Code (IPC), Explosive Substance Act and Arms Act.

JeM chief Maulana Masood Azhar, the outfit's chief commander in Jammu and Kashmir Ghazi Baba alias Abu Jehadi and one Tariq have been declared proclaimed offenders in the case.

Five militants, allegedly Pakistanis, identified as Mohammed alias Leader, Hamza, Haider alias Tufial, Raja and Rana, had died in the gun battle with security forces in the Parliament House complex on the fatal day.

Nine security personnel were also killed and 16 others injured in the attack.

PTI