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Another Delhi blasts suspect nabbed

Devesh K. Pandey

Special Cell team interrogating him after he was brought to the Capital

NEW DELHI: Another serial bomb blast suspect was brought to the Capital by the Delhi police on Sunday. While he was being interrogated till late at night, a Special Cell team was reportedly in Jammu and Kashmir searching for the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants involved in the October 29 Delhi explosions that claimed over 60 lives.

According to sources, the suspect was rounded up following strong inputs about his involvement in the conspiracy behind the blasts.

While the police were questioning him to corroborate his movement before and after the blasts, they were also planning to confront him with Tariq Ahmed Dar, the alleged LeT conduit who was arrested in Srinagar on November 10.

In another development, Tariq allegedly revealed to the police that he had stayed for a day at Tribhuvan guesthouse in Karol Bagh during his visit to Delhi to meet the four LeT militants who planted the bombs.

It has also come to light that while the terrorists reached the Capital in a truck, Tariq had come on board a train.

During their stay here, the militants mostly used satellite phones to communicate with their handlers based in the Kashmir Valley and Pakistan. They also used mobile phones on some occasions.

It is learnt that intelligence agencies were able to detect a conferencing among the LeT militants, the Pakistan-based handlers and Tariq (who was then in Srinagar) on October 30 and zeroed in on him. The conferencing was allegedly facilitated by Tariq, who allegedly worked as an agent for arranging and distributing funds for the LeT.

"He was part of the conspiracy hatched to carry out the Delhi serial blasts," said a police officer.

The Special Cell team was carrying out raids in Jammu and Kashmir in search of one of the masterminds behind the blasts, Abu Huzefa, a Pakistan national. However, unconfirmed intelligence reports suggested that some of the terrorists, Pakistan nationals, could have fled the country.

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