07-11-2006, 09:57 PM
<b>Mastermind of doctor's kidnapping, BJP leader's killing nabbed </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Aligarh, July 10: A leader of a local party has been arrested for allegedly masterminding the recent kidnapping of a cardiologist and hiring the "professional killers" who shot dead a local BJP leader in May, sparking off violence in this communally-sensitive town.
"Clues thrown up during investigations into the abduction of Mannan Wasanwala on June 20 led police to <b>Parcham Party of India (PPI) leader Pervez Ahmad Khan who has confessed to hiring professional killers to eliminate BJP leader Om Prakash Gupta on May 28,</b>" Senior Superintendent of Police Akhil Kumar told a news conference here today.
Khan, who was presented before the media, said he organised the kidnapping to collect funds for paying those who carried out the vendetta killing in May.
He said he wanted to "avenge" the deaths of a number of people of his community during the violence that rocked the old city in April.
The local leader of the <b>PPI, which was floated three years ago to work for the Muslim minorities, said he chose the "method of instant justice as the system would fail to provide it" </b>and that he was solely responsible for masterminding the killing of Gupta.
The SSP said the police were looking for two other killers allegedly hired by Khan. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
"Clues thrown up during investigations into the abduction of Mannan Wasanwala on June 20 led police to <b>Parcham Party of India (PPI) leader Pervez Ahmad Khan who has confessed to hiring professional killers to eliminate BJP leader Om Prakash Gupta on May 28,</b>" Senior Superintendent of Police Akhil Kumar told a news conference here today.
Khan, who was presented before the media, said he organised the kidnapping to collect funds for paying those who carried out the vendetta killing in May.
He said he wanted to "avenge" the deaths of a number of people of his community during the violence that rocked the old city in April.
The local leader of the <b>PPI, which was floated three years ago to work for the Muslim minorities, said he chose the "method of instant justice as the system would fail to provide it" </b>and that he was solely responsible for masterminding the killing of Gupta.
The SSP said the police were looking for two other killers allegedly hired by Khan. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->