AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Anti-terrorist squad (ATS) arrested an accused in the 2006 Kalupur railway blast case from his house in Dilna village of Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir, said DGP Ashish Bhatia on Thursday.
Bilal Ahmed Dar, who was on the run for 15 years following a bomb blast at Kalupur railway station in Ahmedabad in 2006, was arrested by an ATS team led by SSP Deepan Bhadran from Baramulla district on Monday, he said. The blast had left 10 persons injured. No one was killed.
“Investigation revealed that two men from Kashmir — Aslam and Bashir — had shown videos of post-Godhra violence to incite some youngsters studying at a madrasa in Bharuch and brainwash them into spreading terror in the country as revenge,” Bhatia said.
Bilal Dar was studying at this madrasa in 2006, he added. Subsequently, a separate case of conspiracy and sedition under the IPC and relevant provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act was registered against all accused who were part of the conspiracy, Bhatia said.
“Bilal joined the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba after meeting Aslam and Bashir. He then brainwashed some Muslim youths and sent them to Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir and Pakistan with the help of ISI to train them in shooting and bomb-making," the top cop said.
Nine persons had been arrested in connection with this conspiracy earlier, he said. ATS sources said that they received an input that Dar was living in Dilna village where he was employed as a cleric in a mosque. “We just had his first name and took time to ascertain his identity. , We then nabbed him with help of J&Kpolice,” said an ATS officer. .
