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Ahmedabad blasts: 4 more SIMI men held

Manas Dasgupta

AHMEDABAD: Four more people have been arrested in connection with the July 26 Ahmedabad bomb blasts on the confessions said to have been made by the 10 main accused.

An Ahmedabad crime branch police spokesman said here on Thursday that while Naved Kadri, Aiyyaz Sayed and Zaved Ahmed were arrested here, Abbas Asmeja was picked up from Bhuj.

The spokesman said Asmeja had secured a house, under a false name on behalf of the Students Islamic Movement of India, under rehabilitation projects for the people hit by the 2001 Kutch earthquake. The house was sold recently to part-finance the blasts.

The police named Aiyyaz as among those who had actually placed some of the bombs. He was also part of the reconnaissance team. Naved Kadri, an active SIMI worker, was present at the final planning meeting held in Juhapura in the presence of Mufti Abdus Bashar Kasmi. Zaved Ahmed had procured a gas cylinder from Kalupur area, which was used in the car bomb placed at the trauma centre in the civil hospital, the police said.

The police declined to name their source who had provided the lead about the four people but said their identities and details of their involvement were available from questioning the 10 people arrested on August 16, including the “mastermind” Mufti Kasmi.

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