Author: Special Correspondent
Publication: The Hindu
Date: March 7, 2010
URL: http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/07/stories/2010030763480100.htm
The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the U.P.
police arrested an Indian Mujahideen operative and accused in the Delhi serial
bomb blasts, Salman alias Chhotu, in Siddhartnagar district on Friday night.
He carried a reward of Rs.1 lakh on his head announced by the Delhi police
for his involvement in the blasts on September 13, 2008.
ADG (Law and Order) Brij Lal told reporters
here on Saturday that Salman had been named an accused in five FIRs lodged
by the Delhi police. A team of Delhi police had reached Lucknow to secure
his transit remand for further investigations.
Mr. Lal said Salman, who belongs to Sanjarpur
village in Azamgarh district, was enrolled in the Bachelor of Computer Applications
(BCA) course on the Lucknow campus of Sikkim University, Manipal, in 2008.
He was also involved in the serial bomb blasts
in Gorakhpur on May 22, 2007, blasts in the Varanasi civil court on November
23, 2007, the May 13, 2008 bomb blasts in Jaipur, as well as the serial blasts
in Ahmedabad on July 26, 2008.
Following the Delhi blasts, Salman slipped
away to Nepal via Basti and Siddhartnagar districts of Uttar Pradesh.
