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Publication: Sify.com
Date: May 27, 2007
URL: http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id459090
A city-based cleric was arrested and some
arms and ammunition were allegedly seized from his house in Juhapura area,
police said on Sunday. A raid was conducted at his house following a tip off
from an unidentified person and also a verbal complaint by one of his wives
who alleged he had kept arms and ammunition at home and was involved in 'jehadi'
activities, a senior
Crime Branch official told PTI. The seizures
included a pistol, parts of a rocket launcher and some magazines, the official
said, adding they were similar to the kind of crude arms seized from across
the city after the post-Godhra communal riots in 2002. "No link has been
established between the Imam and the Hyderabad mosque blast. He knew some
people there and his wife has claimed that he spoke to people there after
the blast. All this is under investigation," the official said. Two mobile
phones seized from the cleric were also being scrutinised. A case under the
Arms Act has been registered against him.
