A suspect in the 2002 terror attack on American Centre in Kolkata was arrested from Bihar’s Gaya district, police said on Sunday.
A team of Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad, Jharkhand Police and Bihar police arrested Mohammad Sarwar from Neemchak Bathani police station area late last night, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Magadh, Saurabh Kumar said.
He is also a suspect in an attack on a CBI team and the Jharkhand police in Hazaribagh in the same year.
In that incident, two attackers were killed but Sarwar had managed to escape.
The DIG said the suspect had been taken to Hazaribagh in Jharkhand after his arrest.
Six killed
Two motorcycle-borne men had indiscriminately fired using an AK-47 assault rifle at policemen stationed outside the American Centre on Jawaharlal Nehru Road in Kolkata on January 22, 2002 killing six of them and injuring 14 others.
Prime accused in the case, Aftab Ansari, had been arrested in Dubai and deported to India on February 9, 2002.