Thursday, September 8, 2011

NIA announces Rs.5 lakh reward for information on Delhi blast

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has announced a reward of Rs. 5 lakhs for any information from the general public about the Delhi High Court blast culprits.
The NIA and the Delhi police have ruled out the angle of the Santro car being used for the incident. Home Secretary R K Singh said that the car had nothing to do with the incident. The car was just merely a subject of dispute between two people.
Meanwhile, the Jammu and Kashmir police has also started investigating the role of terror groups fighting for Kashmir's secession from India, in the Delhi High Court blast case.
On Thursday morning, the NIA who was probing the blast had arrested three persons in Kishtwar, a mountainous area in Jammu region of the state. The arrested persons include the owner of a cyber café from where the HuJI (Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, a Pakistan based terror group), a mail claiming the responsibility for the blast had been sent.
Director General of Jammu and Kashmir police Kuldeep Khoda told the reporters that the police traced the cyber café in Kishtwar from where some person had emailed the media organizations located in New Delhi.
The police identified the three detained persons as the cybercafé owner, 28 year old Mehmood Aziz Khwaja, his brother Khalid Hussain and Ashwini Kumar, who works at their cybercafe  at Shahidi chowk in Kishtwar town.
D G Khoda said that, initially HuJI had its base mainly in Doda-Kishtwar area in Jammu. Bashir Ahmad Mir, a former Commander-in-chief of the group, operating in northern India till 2008, was killed by the Jammu and Kashmir police in 2008 in Doda.
An intelligence officer said that HuJI, has its affiliated branches in Bangladesh also, which is oriented to fight for the so-called cause of the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
Reported by AR for newsvision

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