Ahmedabad serial blasts: After nine years on the run, blast accused arrested

Patna: In a major breakthrough, the Bihar police on Thursday arrested 2008 Ahmedabad serial blast accused Tauseef Khan from a cyber café.

Tauseef Khan had been evading arrest for the last nine years, the police said. The police also arrested two other persons who are suspected to have been providing local support to Tauseef.

According to the police, he and his associates were arrested from a cyber café in civil lines locality of Gaya.

“Tauseef Khan is one of the main accused in the Ahmedabad serial blast case. The police has also recovered some incriminating documents from him,” said A.K. Singhal, additional director general of police said.

According to the police, the accused along with others had visited the cyber café but refused to produce identity cards when asked by the owner of the café. “The owner of the café found their behavior suspicious. He alerted the police while Tauseef and his associates were trying to leave the cyber café,” police sources said. The blast accused was living in Gaya as a teacher and is believed to have trained several youths.

Sources also claimed that teams of NIA and Gujarat ATS are expected to reach Gaya and interrogate the suspected terrorists. According to reports, Tauseef lived in Myanmar for several years after the Ahmedabad serial blasts. He is also believed to be having links with banned terror outfit Huji.

The police is also trying to find out whether they were planning to carry out terrorist activities to protest the atrocities on Rohingya Muslim refugees in Myanmar.

The state home department after their arrest on Thursday directed the police to intensify security in and around Bodh Gaya. The terrorists in July 2013 had targeted the international Buddhist tourists when the Rohingya problem was going on in Myanmar.