Accused in parliament attack shot in India

Geelani, a teacher of Arabic language in Zakir Hussain College, was operated on at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) where doctors removed bullets from his body, after he had been shot outside his lawyer Nandita Haksar's house in South Delhi last night.

Geelani was reportedly fired at five times and three bullets had hit him, two in the stomach and one in the shoulder.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court today asked Delhi police to submit a progress report on its investigations into the murderous attack on Geelani.

The terrorist attack on Indian Parliament had taken place on December 13, 2001, and Geelani was one of the four persons arrested by the Delhi police in connection with the incident. A year later, a fast-track anti-terrorism court found Geelani and four others guilty and awarded him death sentence.

But Delhi High Court acquitted him and one more person of the charge in October 2003.