Jul 28 2008
Ahmedabad serial blast: 1 arrested
After 48 hours of serial bomb blast in Ahmedabad, police late on Sunday made an arrest of an activist of the banned outfit, SIMI. Identified as Abdul Halim, the militant was arrested in Dani Limda, Ahmedabad after police traced a phone call and focused on eyewitness accounts. He has been interrogated in connection with the incident.
A live bomb in the city was being defused on Sunday and another three found in Surat city also.
The arrested man is wanted in connection with 2002 post-Godhra riots also. Regarding his arrested in connection with the 17 low intensity blasts happened in Ahmedabad on Saturday evening that claimed 49 lives, Ahmedabad Joint Commissioner of Police Ashish Bhatia told “His arrest could well be the first one in the series of more arrest likely to happen in connection with the serial blast. Of the 30 people who have been rounded up, the police is now concentrating on a couple of cycle shop owners and cycle distributors.”
“There were reports that he was hiding in Delhi and we had intimidated Delhi Police as well. After receiving some specific inputs about his whereabouts, the crime branch arrested him during a combing operation,” he added.
A high alert has been declared at several states, including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi visited Ahmedabad on Monday. They are likely to meet the injured people in hospitals undergoing treatment.
On Saturday evening, 16 coordinated serial blasts rocked the city killing 49 people and injuring more than 150, a day after eight explosions rippled the IT city, Bangalore which killed one woman and injured many.
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