Investigating Officer of the case, Dy SP Ram Nayan Singh said, “After Babu Bhai’s arrest, we passed on the information to the West Bengal police who caught them and later went and brought them here on transit remand.”

But he has no explanation as to how Ajijur could be present in Lucknow at the same time that he was lodged in a jail in Kolkata. His lawyer Mohammad Shoaib says the facts clearly show that his client had been falsely implicated in the case.

“If someone is present in Kolkata, how can he be in Lucknow at the same time? Moreover, nothing objectionable was recovered from his possession at the time of arrest,” added Shoaib.

For the record

In December 2007, the UP police arrested 26-year-old Aftab Alam Ansari, an employee of Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation Limited, for his alleged involvement in the serial blasts that rocked the civil courts in UP on November 23, 2007. For 18 days, the police questioned him, but found no evidence. Finally, he was released on January 16. STF officials had then claimed that they arrested Ansari after he was named by two HuJI operatives, Mohammad Khalid and Tariq Qazmi, who were allegedly involved in the blasts.

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