TADA court in Gujarat sends Mumbai blast accused to 10 days remand

Jamnagar: A designated Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) court here today allowed 10 days remand of Qadir Ahmed (61), an accused of arms supply for 1993 bomb blast case who was arrested from Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh on July 8 in a joint operation on the UP Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) and Gujarat ATS.

Dy SP Rajendrasinh Jadeja said that Qadir, who was an accused in case number 151/93 lodged in the B-division police station here in connection with arms supply for deadly blasts which killed over 200 people and injured over 700, was produced in the TADA court of Judge Dave. The court allowed 10 days remand (till July 20) for further interrogation. ‘We had demanded one month remand,’ he said.

In this case Qadir’s role was revealed later and his name was included in the FIR in 1995. Police was searching him since. ‘So far around 45 accused in the case have been nabbed, however around 16 including big fishes like Dawood Ibrahim and Tiger Memon were still at large,’ he said.

Qadir, a resident of Najibabad in Bijnor is believed to have been one of the point men of Tiger Memon, the prime accused and key conspirator of the Mumbai blasts, in Jamnagar where he received Menon’s consignment of explosives, arms and ammunition. This consignment was later used in the mayhem.

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