Crime Branch will try to bring Key conspirator of 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts to Gujarat at earliest: JCP J K Bhatt

Ahmedabad:

The Crime Branch of Ahmedabad police would try to get the custody of dreaded terrorist and one of the key conspirators of 2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blast, Abdul Subhan Qureshi, nabbed today by Delhi police, at the earliest and bring him here for further interrogation, Crime Branch JCP J K Bhatt said.

He said that Subhan alias Taukeer was involved in Mumbai train blast case, Jaipur and Delhi blasts of 2008 along with the serial blasts in Ahmedabad of July 26 the same year and failed conspiracy of such blasts in Surat.

Bhatt said that of all the cases he was involved in, Ahmedabad serial blast case was the deadliest. ‘Since he has cases against him in Delhi, the police there would interrogate him but we would also try to get him at the earliest. We would try to bring him here in a short time through transfer warrant and produce him in court for taking his remand. We are also in touch with DCP of the special cell of the Delhi police in this regard,’ he added.

The JCP said that an aide of Bhatkals, Subhan, 46, was a native of Rampur in UP and was living in Mumbai.

He had also lived in Vatva and Vadodara and participated in various SIMI meetings in Juhapura in Ahmedabad in 2003-04. He had also participated in the meetings of Indian Mujahideen in the forests of Kerala and Pawagarh in Gujarat to make the plans for Ahmedabad serial blasts. He was a key conspirator and provided training about it and circuits etc used to make bombs. He had fled to Nepal via Jharkhand and Bihar and also to Pakistan after the incident. He had gone to Pakistan at least two-three times.

Earlier he had also done recce of the office of the then BJP MLA Rakesh Shah here and of Vadodara MS University senate member Pradip Shah.

Bhatt said that detailed interrogation of Taukir would be done once he was brought to Ahmedabad.

He said that as per the information received so far he had opened fire at Delhi police before his arrest. He had fired three shots from a revolver.
Notably 57 people were killed and over 200 injured in the serial blast at 21 places in Ahmedabad on July 26, 2008.

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