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Masjid blast accused in CBI custody

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: A city court on Monday granted police custody of Devender Gupta, one of the accused persons, who had allegedly conspired to carry out explosions in Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad three years ago. He will be in CBI custody till June 30. The magistrate issued the orders after the CBI filed a petition in the court on Friday seeking custody of Gupta to elicit more information about the blast. Another petition to conduct test identification parade of Lokesh Sarma, the other person arrested in the case, was also filed. Gupta, along with his associate Sarma, were produced before the court by the CBI on Thursday. The court sent them to two weeks judicial remand following which they were lodged in Chanchalguda jail. They were earlier arrested for alleged involvement in the bomb blast at Ajmer and lodged in Ajmer Central Prison.

They were brought from Ajmer prison on a prisoner's transit warrant. The accused are members of the Abhinav Bharat, a Hindu fundamentalist organisation.

“CBI officials will submit court documents to authorities of Chanchalguda prison on Tuesday and take Gupta into their custody,” said CBI Senior Public Prosecutor T. Venkata Ramana. The identification of Sarma will be conducted in the prison on June 26 to establish his link in the blast. The agency has lined up a few persons who claim they had seen the two accused .

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