MUMBAI: Sixteen years after he escaped, the Gujarat AntiTerrorism Squad (ATS) and Mumbai crime branch in a joint operation on Monday arrested Irfan Qureshi (47), one of the most conspirators in the 2002 Ghatkopar bus blast case.
Qureshi used to be a director in Pragma Softwate Technology, a firm he in conjunction with two others operated from Aurangabad, deputy commissioner of police Nisar Tamboli mentioned.
Police mentioned the firm used to be a entrance, and its place of work used to be used as a meeting point to hatch the blast conspiracy. Qureshi used to be picked up from his residence at Shah Colony in Usmanpura, Ahmedabad, after Gujarat ATS got a tipoff that he arrived in India on May 3 on a Muscat-Mumbai-Aurangabad flight.
Gujarat ATS alerted the Mumbai crime branch (unit 10) as he used to be an accused in the blast inside of a BEST bus in Ghatkopar on December 2, 2002 that killed two and injured 50. Qureshi had escaped to Muscat two months before the blast. But the crime branch probe printed his involvement, and police performed a raid at his Aurangabad place of work. Official sources mentioned whilst in Muscat, Qureshi got his passport renewed in 2003.
“He visited Ahmedabad in 2007 and 2015 however agencies did not get any leads. He returned this time pondering issues must have eased,” sources mentioned. Gujarat ATS started its seek for Qureshi after its probe into the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Karnavati Express blast of 2006 printed he used to be concerned.
“The title got here up when two accused had been stuck from Aurangabad,” an officer mentioned.
Qureshi used to be produced before a special courtroom. The prosecution mentioned he used to be founder of the firm and alleged CDs and floppy disks containing subject material on terror outfits had been recovered from its place of work. It claimed the gang’s object used to be to persuade Muslim formative years through bringing up incidents such because the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Defence advocates Tahera Qureshi and Yakub Shaikh cited a 2004 evaluate committee record which mentioned a prima facie case used to be not made out to attach the accused to the offence beneath POTA.
They mentioned he used to be spouse in the firm for handiest nine months and had left India on October 1, 2002. Special judge MB Datye remanded Qureshi to police custody until May 14. “The accused used to be founder of Pragma Software Technology. It can't be forgotten some subject material about the conspiracy might be hatched even before he left India. Even if his alleged affiliation with the firm is small, police must get authority to find out his position,” the courtroom mentioned
Qureshi used to be a director in Pragma Softwate Technology, a firm he in conjunction with two others operated from Aurangabad, deputy commissioner of police Nisar Tamboli mentioned.
Police mentioned the firm used to be a entrance, and its place of work used to be used as a meeting point to hatch the blast conspiracy. Qureshi used to be picked up from his residence at Shah Colony in Usmanpura, Ahmedabad, after Gujarat ATS got a tipoff that he arrived in India on May 3 on a Muscat-Mumbai-Aurangabad flight.
Gujarat ATS alerted the Mumbai crime branch (unit 10) as he used to be an accused in the blast inside of a BEST bus in Ghatkopar on December 2, 2002 that killed two and injured 50. Qureshi had escaped to Muscat two months before the blast. But the crime branch probe printed his involvement, and police performed a raid at his Aurangabad place of work. Official sources mentioned whilst in Muscat, Qureshi got his passport renewed in 2003.
“He visited Ahmedabad in 2007 and 2015 however agencies did not get any leads. He returned this time pondering issues must have eased,” sources mentioned. Gujarat ATS started its seek for Qureshi after its probe into the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Karnavati Express blast of 2006 printed he used to be concerned.
“The title got here up when two accused had been stuck from Aurangabad,” an officer mentioned.
Qureshi used to be produced before a special courtroom. The prosecution mentioned he used to be founder of the firm and alleged CDs and floppy disks containing subject material on terror outfits had been recovered from its place of work. It claimed the gang’s object used to be to persuade Muslim formative years through bringing up incidents such because the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Defence advocates Tahera Qureshi and Yakub Shaikh cited a 2004 evaluate committee record which mentioned a prima facie case used to be not made out to attach the accused to the offence beneath POTA.
They mentioned he used to be spouse in the firm for handiest nine months and had left India on October 1, 2002. Special judge MB Datye remanded Qureshi to police custody until May 14. “The accused used to be founder of Pragma Software Technology. It can't be forgotten some subject material about the conspiracy might be hatched even before he left India. Even if his alleged affiliation with the firm is small, police must get authority to find out his position,” the courtroom mentioned
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