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Blast accused brought to Ahmedabad

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AHMEDABAD: The Anti-Terrorist Squad of the Gujarat police has unearthed the mystery behind the bomb blast at the Ahmedabad railway station after two persons, arrested earlier by the Maharashtra ATS, were brought on transfer warrant here.

The Gujarat ATS chief, D.G. Vanjhara, said here on Monday that the main perpetrators of the bomb blast on platform numbers two and three of the Kalupur railway station in Ahmedabad on February 19were a gang from Aurangabad in Maharashtra, who were believed to have taken training in terrorist activities in Pakistan.

Mohammad Amiz Shakeel Ahmed and Sayed Aquife Jufrauddin, who were brought on transfer warrant here and formally placed under arrest by the Gujarat ATS, were among the 19 suspected terrorists arrested by the Maharashtra ATS from Mumbai on May 9 and recovered from their possession 16 AK47 rifles, 50 hand grenades, 3,200 live cartridges, 62 magazines and 43 kg of RDX.

The investigation revealed so far may have proved wrong the initial police theory that the actual intention of the terrorists was to explode blast the bomb in the Karnavati Express itself but it landed on the Ahmedabad platform by mistake from where it took off.

According to Mr. Vanjhara, the bomb manufactured by Zabiuddin Zakiuddin Sayed was handed over to Faiyaz in a suitcase which was planted on S1 coach of the Karnavati Express from Mumbai to Ahmedabad and he himself disembarked at the Mumbai station itself leaving the baggage unattended.

The Gujarat ATS also placed under arrest for "concealment with criminal design" a railway police constable, Kamlesh Somji Bhagora, who was informed about the unattended suitcase after the train terminated at Ahmedabad but instead of informing the authorities concerned he quietly kept it hidden behind crates of cold drinks where the bomb blasted sometime later.

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