<p>Mumbai: Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative Aijaz Shaikh, who was sentenced to death for the February 2013 Hyderabad terror attack, was on Friday acquitted by a Mumbai court in a 2010 case related to sending an email on behalf of the banned outfit and warning about terror strikes in New Delhi.</p><p>Special MCOCA judge BD Shelke on Friday acquitted Shaikh for want of evidence. However, the detailed order was not available yet.</p><p>Aijaz Shaikh, who once worked in a BPO and is considered tech savvy, is currently lodged in a jail in Hyderabad.</p>.<p>In February 2015, Shaikh was arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch in the terror mail case, which was registered on October 10, 2010 in connection with a mail sent to United Kingdom-based BBC news channel warning that IM would carry out terror strikes in the national capital.</p><p>A probe suggested the email was sent from south Mumbai and police zeroed in on Shaikh, who is accused of sending it from his mobile phone.</p><p>Shaikh was charged with forgery for obtaining a SIM card in the name of another person and using it for sending threat mails.</p>.Timber dealer's house raided in connection to 2013 terror attack in Baramulla .<p>The prosecution examined eight witnesses, which included the owner of shop from where Shaikh purchased SIM cards on fake identity documents.</p><p>Advocate Hasnain Kazi, appearing for the accused, had contended the IP address mentioned in the FIR showed it belonged to Norway.</p><p>No expert witness was examined to prove the email was sent from Mumbai, Kazi further argued.</p>.<p>Shaikh was made a scapegoat because the investigating authority failed to trace the true accused, Kazi submitted.</p><p>Shaikh is also facing trials in the July 2011 serial explosions in Zaveri Bazar, Opera House and Kabutar Khana in which 21 people were killed.</p>
<p>Mumbai: Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative Aijaz Shaikh, who was sentenced to death for the February 2013 Hyderabad terror attack, was on Friday acquitted by a Mumbai court in a 2010 case related to sending an email on behalf of the banned outfit and warning about terror strikes in New Delhi.</p><p>Special MCOCA judge BD Shelke on Friday acquitted Shaikh for want of evidence. However, the detailed order was not available yet.</p><p>Aijaz Shaikh, who once worked in a BPO and is considered tech savvy, is currently lodged in a jail in Hyderabad.</p>.<p>In February 2015, Shaikh was arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch in the terror mail case, which was registered on October 10, 2010 in connection with a mail sent to United Kingdom-based BBC news channel warning that IM would carry out terror strikes in the national capital.</p><p>A probe suggested the email was sent from south Mumbai and police zeroed in on Shaikh, who is accused of sending it from his mobile phone.</p><p>Shaikh was charged with forgery for obtaining a SIM card in the name of another person and using it for sending threat mails.</p>.Timber dealer's house raided in connection to 2013 terror attack in Baramulla .<p>The prosecution examined eight witnesses, which included the owner of shop from where Shaikh purchased SIM cards on fake identity documents.</p><p>Advocate Hasnain Kazi, appearing for the accused, had contended the IP address mentioned in the FIR showed it belonged to Norway.</p><p>No expert witness was examined to prove the email was sent from Mumbai, Kazi further argued.</p>.<p>Shaikh was made a scapegoat because the investigating authority failed to trace the true accused, Kazi submitted.</p><p>Shaikh is also facing trials in the July 2011 serial explosions in Zaveri Bazar, Opera House and Kabutar Khana in which 21 people were killed.</p>