11-07-2006, 11:49 AM
<b>2 docs held for Malegaon blasts</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> Mumbai, November 7: Two Unani doctors were on Tuesday arrested on charges of conspiracy behind the Malegaon serial blasts, Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) sources said.
Salman was picked up by ATS from his hideout at Govandi in north east Mumbai while Farooq was arrested from Malegaon, the sources said.
"According to initial reports, both are suspected to be conspirators in the case. Further details would be known later," a high-ranking ATS officer said in Mumbai.
Both will be booked under stringent MCOCA and produced before a special court, he said.
With this, the total number of arrests in the case has risen to five.
Thirty-one people were killed and over 300 injured in four explosions that rocked the powerloom of Malegaon in north Maharashtra on September 8.
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Salman was picked up by ATS from his hideout at Govandi in north east Mumbai while Farooq was arrested from Malegaon, the sources said.
"According to initial reports, both are suspected to be conspirators in the case. Further details would be known later," a high-ranking ATS officer said in Mumbai.
Both will be booked under stringent MCOCA and produced before a special court, he said.
With this, the total number of arrests in the case has risen to five.
Thirty-one people were killed and over 300 injured in four explosions that rocked the powerloom of Malegaon in north Maharashtra on September 8.
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