Author: Dippy Vankani
Publication: Deccan Chronicle
Date: November 24, 2012
URL: http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/nation/south/techie-held-ghatkopar-blast-case-885

One of the alleged conspirators of the 2002 Ghatkopar bomb blast, who was working as a software engineer with a software firm in Hyderabad under a fake name, was arrested by the crime branch on Friday. The police said that the accused had fled Mumbai after the blasts and was living with his wife and five children.

Two persons were killed and 28 injured on December 6, 2002, when at around 6.45 pm, a bomb placed under a seat of an empty BEST bus exploded near the busy Ghatkopar station.

The crime intelligence unit of the Mumbai crime branch on Friday arrested Taj-Ul-Islam Quazi from Hyderabad. “He was a conspirator in the 2002 blast of Ghatkopar. He was working as a software engineer with HCL in Hyderabad under an assumed name Siddiqui Taj Quazi,” said Himanshu Roy, joint commissioner of police (crime).