<div>The Indore-based businessman arrested for his alleged involvement in the Samjhauta express blast in 2007, on Tuesday accepted of being a partisan to the crime before a frenzied media.<br /><br /></div>.<div><div>Kamal Chouhan, the accused, was produced before a special court in Panchkula near Chandigarh.<br /><br />Answering to question posed by the media after the court proceedings, Chouhan admitted that he had planted the bomb on the New Delhi-lahore train. His counsel, however, brushed off the confession as an act under “duress.”<br /><br />Chouhan’s family also came down heavily on the NIA, rubbishing the investigating agency’s claim of nabbing the businessman from sector-56 in Noida. He had instead been arrested from Indore in Madhya Pradesh, his family said.<br /><br />The special court has remanded Chouhan till February 24. The NIA argued in favour of remanding Chouhan as he would be useful in extracting information on the co-conspirators. His father Radhey Shyam, who was present in the court, said: “My son is a farmer and nothing to do with the case. He is only 22 when the NIA claims he is 28 years old.”<br /><br />Anil Soni, Chouhan’s counsel, accused the NIA of “playing hide and seek in this whole matter.” The court later granted Soni 20 minutes to interact with Chouhan. <br /><br /></div></div>
<div>The Indore-based businessman arrested for his alleged involvement in the Samjhauta express blast in 2007, on Tuesday accepted of being a partisan to the crime before a frenzied media.<br /><br /></div>.<div><div>Kamal Chouhan, the accused, was produced before a special court in Panchkula near Chandigarh.<br /><br />Answering to question posed by the media after the court proceedings, Chouhan admitted that he had planted the bomb on the New Delhi-lahore train. His counsel, however, brushed off the confession as an act under “duress.”<br /><br />Chouhan’s family also came down heavily on the NIA, rubbishing the investigating agency’s claim of nabbing the businessman from sector-56 in Noida. He had instead been arrested from Indore in Madhya Pradesh, his family said.<br /><br />The special court has remanded Chouhan till February 24. The NIA argued in favour of remanding Chouhan as he would be useful in extracting information on the co-conspirators. His father Radhey Shyam, who was present in the court, said: “My son is a farmer and nothing to do with the case. He is only 22 when the NIA claims he is 28 years old.”<br /><br />Anil Soni, Chouhan’s counsel, accused the NIA of “playing hide and seek in this whole matter.” The court later granted Soni 20 minutes to interact with Chouhan. <br /><br /></div></div>
