Indian police have charged a journalist with conspiring to carry out a bomb attack on an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi in February, a senior police official told AFP Wednesday. Syed Kazmi, a freelance journalist who worked part-time with Iran’s IRNA news agency, is accused of helping a group of Iranians to plan and execute the attack which saw a man on a motorbike attach a magnetic bomb to an Israeli embassy car. “We charged Syed Kazmi yesterday under the prevention of unlawful activities act. He has been charged with planning and conspiracy in the February attack,” said anti-terrorism official Ashok Chand, who is supervising the investigation. Kazmi is the only person to be charged in India in connection with the bombing. A 42-year-old Israeli diplomat, the wife of the defence attache at the embassy, was badly wounded in the explosion near the prime minister’s residence in the centre of the Indian capital. A report in the Times of India newspaper on Monday said Delhi police had informed Iran that the plotters were members of the country’s powerful Revolutionary Guards, a branch of the military.
