September 9, 2010 8:23 AM

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M'rashtra ATS arrest two persons in February blast case in Pune’s German Bakery

The Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad – ATS has arrested two persons, Mirza Himayat Baig and Lalbaba Bilal – in connection with Pune’s German Bakery blast case. The third accused Mohsin Chaudhary is absconding. The powerful blast on February 13th this year had ripped apart Pune’s German Bakery leaving 17 people dead.Himayat Mirza Baig has been remanded in police custody till September 20 by an ATS court in Pune today. Baig has alleged links with Lashakar e Tayyaba. While speaking to reporters ATS investigating officer Vinod Satav has said that 1200 gms of RDX have been recovered from Baig. He was arrested yesterday. Another accused Shaik Llbaba Mohammed Hussain Farid alias Bilal has been remanded in ATS custody till 14 September by the local court in Nashik this afternoon.Giving details at a press conference in Mumbai today, Maharashtra’s ATS Chief, Rakesh Maria said that Himayat, Chief of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba’s Maharashtra wing was arrested from Pune last night while the other accused Bilal was arrested from Nashik. He said that a huge cache of RDX, mobile phones, pen drives and cash in American dollars has also been recovered from the duo.Maria said that the whole conspiracy was hatched in Himayat Baig’s internet cafe in Maharashtra’s Udgir district. He said that a third accused Mohsin Chaudhary had conducted the recce of German Bakery on January 31st and had also supplied the ammunition for the blast that was triggered through a mobile phone.Maria also disclosed that Bilal, who worked at a factory in Nagpur, had received some training in Pakistan in 2008. He had conducted recce of many places, including government offices across Maharashtra with the intention of engineering blasts in the near future.Maria said the investigations in the German Bakery Blast Case were conducted with the help of not just Maharashtra police but also the state police of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Delhi.On February 13 this year, a powerful blast had ripped Pune’s German Bakery leaving 17 people dead.

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