2 terrorists held for Delhi blasts
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 01, 2005 01:38:07 AM ]
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NEW DELHI: In what is being described as the most intensive operation by the Delhi Police, the special cell on Tuesday arrested two men, one of them from Nawanshahar in Punjab, for their involvement in the twin blasts in cinema halls on May 22. The preliminary interrogation of the accused has revealed that the conspiracy behind the attack was hatched in Stuttgart in Germany.
While Balwinder Singh was nabbed from a village in Nawanshahar, the other accused, Jagannath, was arrested from Madipur in Delhi. Balwinder has reportedly told the police that the instructions for the attack came from Stuttgart-based Satnam Singh, son-in-law of chief of Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), Wadhwa Singh Babbar, and was facilitated by Pakistan-based leaders of former Punjab militant outfits. These men apparently arranged for the RDX used in the attack from Jammu. According to the police, the blasts were carried out by four men. ''Two others have been identified as Vikas and Jaspal. We are hopeful that they will be arrested very soon,'' said police commissioner, Dr K K Paul.
Vikas and Jaspal were apparently hiding in the same village and managed to escape just minutes before the Delhi Police team, led by ACP Rajbir Singh reached there. The police detained another man, apparently Balwinder's driver, from the same village but his role is yet to be confirmed.
Rs 2.94 lakh cash, 1 kg RDX and 2 kg gold was seized from the house in Madipur. According to the two, the instructions for the attack were passed on to them by a man named Shahid in Bangkok. The two had gone to Bangkok on April 22 and returned on May 13. Shahid, about whom little is known as yet, apparently told them how to carry out the attack. Balwinder and Jaspal were active members of BKI. The two apparently managed to convince Vikas and Jagannath, who don't belong to Punjab, to take part in the attack in lieu of money.
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