Police claim arrest breakthrough
Related
Top Stories
- Rs 20L seized from Ajit Chandila relative's home, another ex-cricketer held
- Indian American teen Eesha Khare invents wondrous 20-sec charger, Google eyes bid
- India and China ask SRs to work on more border steps
- Can't charge man with rape over consensual sex even if marriage eludes: Supreme Court
- Saudi Arabian authorities refuse to accept new Indian passports
Mumbai Police Crime Branch arrested on Friday a main conspirator of the 2002 Ghatkopar bomb blast that killed two people and injured 28.
Police said Taj-Ul Islam Quazi fled Mumbai after the blasts and was staying with wife and five children in Hyderabad. He was working with HCL there as a software engineer under the fake name Siddiqui Taj Quazi.
He was produced before Killa Metropolitan Magistrate Court and remanded in police custody till December 3.
Himanshu Roy, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), said Quazi was originally from Aurangabad and a key member of a group led by Dr Abdul Mateen.
"Quazi did not participate in execution of the blast, but he is a member of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India," he said.
A bomb placed under a seat of an empty BEST bus parked near Ghatkopar Railway Station had exploded around 6.45 pm on December 6, 2002.
In 2005, Bombay High Court acquitted all eight arrested accused in the case, first in a series during 2002-2003 in which POTA was invoked, while pulling up Mumbai Police for failing to trace missing accused Khwaja Younus.
Two Kabir Kala Manch members arrested after four-hour ‘wait’
No blocks left as MMRDA gets right of way for freeway stretch
It’s home sweat home for these Mhada lottery winners
LBT protest starts to hurt the kitchenEditors’ Pick
- 'Sophisticated' Indian cyberattacks targeted Pak military sites: Report
- Talkative Li quoted Weber, Hegel, Jobs, said PM is large-hearted
- Bihar food corp ends up with chaff as rice worth Rs 535 cr vanishes from mills
- In 7 lucrative minutes on May 9, Sreesanth bowled six balls, bookie made Rs 2.5 cr
- India and China ask border envoys to work on more steps
- Former Ranji player among 3 more held
- Rajasthan Royals to file FIR against tainted trio
- Family of theft accused allege police torture
- IVF breakthrough can triple number of births: Scientists
- After Khalid’s death, Muslim leaders want govt to make Nimesh panel report public
- Meteoroid impact triggers bright flash on the moon
- Cobrapost sting: NABARD chief gives clean chit to co-operative banks
