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Search on for militant's father

Staff Reporter

Wanted in connection with blasts in 1993

NEW DELHI: Irfan Ahmed, father of alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant Mohammad Issa, is said to be an active member of the Tanzim Mujahiddin Islam Al-Hind outfit headed by the top LeT militant Abdul Karim Tunda.

The Special Cell of the Delhi police arrested Issa at New Delhi railway station this past Thursday along with Pakistani national Abu Anas.

Irfan is described by the police as an absconder in the serial blasts aboard trains in Hyderabad, Indergarh, Gulbarga, Surat and Lucknow on December 5 and 6, 1993. Two persons were killed in the blasts and 22 injured. He was arrested by the Special Cell in 1994 and handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation.

But he managed to come out on parole on the pretext of attending his brother's marriage at Bahraich in Uttar Pradesh in 2000 and vanished.

He fled to Nepal along with his family and set up a base. After coming into contact with the LeT founding member Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhwi, he helped in sneaking militants into India through the porous Nepal border. A reward of Rs. 50,000 had been declared on Irfan's head.

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