Ahmedabad

Security agencies have finally nabbed Aabid Chikna, brother of the absconding 1993 Mumbai serial blast accused Javed Chikna, one of the main conspirators of the double murder of BJP leaders in Bharuch town of Gujarat last month from Indo-Nepal border area.

Aabid has been nabbed with another person on a tip off, sources in the Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Gujarat police said today.

He was caught from the area close to Gorakhpur town of Uttar Pradesh.

Earlier nine people had been arrested in the sensational murder case which is being investigated by the National Investigating Agency (NIA) on the recommendations of the Gujarat government owing to its alleged connection with international terrorists and aides of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. Javed, also an associate of Dawood and the main accused of Mumbai blast Tiger Memon, who is said to be living in South Africa had given the contract of the murder of the leaders through Aabid to Gujarat based killers.

The ATS, which assisted the Bharuch crime branch in cracking the mystery of the case, has claimed that the murder of the former district BJP president Shirsh Bangali (60) and BJYM district general secretary Pragnesh Mistry (34) was part of a conspiracy of Javed Chikna to eliminate Hindu leaders to avenge the alleged accesses on minority community. Javed, who is believed to be in South Africa, had paid a contract money for the killing plot. The duo was shot dead by motorcycle borne assailants in the evening of November 2 while they were sitting in the printing press premises of Mr. Bangali, also a prominent member of the RSS and former VHP man, in Shevashram road of the city.

Several starling revelations have come up during the interrogation of the earlier nabbed nine accused, all of whom belong to a particular community and also include the main shooter and a local rickshaw puller, who used to pass the information to the gang about the activities of the slain leader for helping in murder plot.

The Interpol has already sounded an alert for the arrest of Javed.

The arrest of Aabid would give vital clues and also help in nabbing the other bigger culprits including Javed, the ATS sources said.

– DeshGujarat

PTI report on same development: New Delhi, An aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim allegedly responsible for gunning down of two BJP leaders in Gujarat’s Bharuch district, was today arrested at the Indo-Nepal border by central security agencies with the help of Nepal Police.

Brother of Javed Chikna, one of the close aides of Ibrahim, Abid Patel was nabbed when he was crossing over to Nepal, official sources said.

They said security agencies had been tracking his activities after his name surfaced in the conspiracy of the killing of the two BJP leaders. The sleuths had information that he would be crossing over to Nepal from Bihar.

The central security agencies had taken their Nepalese counterparts into confidence and in a joint operation Abid was nabbed as he had entered into the Nepalese territory, the sources said.

He will be handed over to Gujarat Police, who will question him in connection with the murder case.

Two unidentified gunmen had shot dead former party president of Bharuch district and senior RSS member Shirish Bangali and the Bharuch district general secretary of BJP’s youth wing Pragnesh Mistry on November 2.