05-09-2006, 09:50 PM
Varanasi blasts accused shot dead
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Zubair, a resident of Bharaich, Uttar Pradesh, was shot dead in a fierce gunbattle with the police, Inspector General, Police (Kashmir Range) K Rajendra told PTI.
"We had a specific input about him at least a month back and we were trailing him ever since. He could have been trying to flee to Pakistan," Rajendra said.
Zubair was a member of the outlawed Harkat-ul-Jehadi-Islamia (HuJI), which is operating from Bangladesh.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Zubair, a resident of Bharaich, Uttar Pradesh, was shot dead in a fierce gunbattle with the police, Inspector General, Police (Kashmir Range) K Rajendra told PTI.
"We had a specific input about him at least a month back and we were trailing him ever since. He could have been trying to flee to Pakistan," Rajendra said.
Zubair was a member of the outlawed Harkat-ul-Jehadi-Islamia (HuJI), which is operating from Bangladesh.
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