04-05-2006, 09:41 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Varanasi blasts: Six LeT militants arrested </b>
Pioneer.com
Agencies/ Lucknow
In a major breakthrough in the Varanasi blasts, six Lashkar-e-Toiba militants, involved in the March 7 twin blasts in the temple town that claimed 20 lives, have been arrested in Lucknow.
Five LeT militants were arrested from Sarojni Nagar and one from Gosainganj here, official sources said on Wednesday.
The sources said some AK-47 rifles, handgrenades and other explosive material were found from them. Two explosions occurred on March 7 in quick succession at the Sankatmochan shrine and the cantonment railway station, killing 20 people and injuring over 50.
The worst hit was the railway station where 14 people were killed and 30 injured. The other blast at the Sankatmochan temple occurred when it was teeming with devotees, killing six persons and injuring 25 others.
Yadav said, 15 hand grenades, six kilograms of RDX, three kilograms of plastic explosives, one AK-47 rifle with magazine, 27 cartridges, 10 detonator fuses and a pistol along with some cartridges were recovered from the possession of the arrested militants.
<b>While five of them were arrested from Sarojini Nagar area , another was nabbed from Gosaiganj. </b>
Acting on an intelligence information, STF sleuths arrested prime suspect Wali Ullah from Gosainganj and later based on the information provided by him, arrested five others from Sarojini Nagar area, he said.
Yadav said that Wali Ullah earlier worked for JEM and had been arrested along with his two brothers in 2001 and was currently the self-styled area commander of HUJI.
Ullah had studied in Deoband from where he had travelled to Bangladesh with another student Bashiruddin, a resident of Bangladesh, Yadav said adding that the HUJI Commander Maulana Asad Ullah directed him (Wali) to prepare youths for being sent to Pakistan for training, he said <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This news is without masala or filmy dialogue of HT
According to this news Police have arrested 5 people. They had not mentioned their country of origin, it means they are Indian.
Again connection between HUJI (Bangladesh), Deoband.
So bombing was part of a Pan-Islamic group.
Pioneer.com
Agencies/ Lucknow
In a major breakthrough in the Varanasi blasts, six Lashkar-e-Toiba militants, involved in the March 7 twin blasts in the temple town that claimed 20 lives, have been arrested in Lucknow.
Five LeT militants were arrested from Sarojni Nagar and one from Gosainganj here, official sources said on Wednesday.
The sources said some AK-47 rifles, handgrenades and other explosive material were found from them. Two explosions occurred on March 7 in quick succession at the Sankatmochan shrine and the cantonment railway station, killing 20 people and injuring over 50.
The worst hit was the railway station where 14 people were killed and 30 injured. The other blast at the Sankatmochan temple occurred when it was teeming with devotees, killing six persons and injuring 25 others.
Yadav said, 15 hand grenades, six kilograms of RDX, three kilograms of plastic explosives, one AK-47 rifle with magazine, 27 cartridges, 10 detonator fuses and a pistol along with some cartridges were recovered from the possession of the arrested militants.
<b>While five of them were arrested from Sarojini Nagar area , another was nabbed from Gosaiganj. </b>
Acting on an intelligence information, STF sleuths arrested prime suspect Wali Ullah from Gosainganj and later based on the information provided by him, arrested five others from Sarojini Nagar area, he said.
Yadav said that Wali Ullah earlier worked for JEM and had been arrested along with his two brothers in 2001 and was currently the self-styled area commander of HUJI.
Ullah had studied in Deoband from where he had travelled to Bangladesh with another student Bashiruddin, a resident of Bangladesh, Yadav said adding that the HUJI Commander Maulana Asad Ullah directed him (Wali) to prepare youths for being sent to Pakistan for training, he said <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This news is without masala or filmy dialogue of HT
According to this news Police have arrested 5 people. They had not mentioned their country of origin, it means they are Indian.
Again connection between HUJI (Bangladesh), Deoband.
So bombing was part of a Pan-Islamic group.