Judicial Magistrate Ahmed Masood Janjua on Wednesday recorded confession statement of a suspect of the Mumbai attacks. Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) sources told Daily Times that the suspect, Shahid Jamil Riaz son of Muhammad Riaz of Naseerabad, Bahawalpur, was presented before the court amid tight security and even reporters were not allowed to cover the proceedings. They said Riaz, a member of banned Lashkr-e-Taiba was arrested by FIA last month, on suspicion that he abetted the Mumbai attacks. "Riaz's statement was recorded under Section 164, in which he confessed that he and his four accomplices - Hammad Amin Sadiq, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, Abdul Wajid alias Zarar Shah and Mazhar Iqbal alias Abu Al Qama - assisted the Mumbai attackers and provided them logistic support to carry out the attacks," the sources said.
However, sources in the court did not provide any information on the development. Riaz's counsel said the suspect was presented before the judicial magistrate, who refused to record the confession statement.