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2008 serial Blasts: Police file chargesheets against top IM men

New Delhi: Delhi Police today chargesheeted 29 suspected top Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives, including its co-founders Yasin Bhatkal, Riyaz Bhatkal and Iqbal Bhatkal, in two cases of September 13, 2008 serial blasts here, saying they

PTI Updated on: April 03, 2014 20:22 IST


The police said during the probe, Yasin had taken them to a rented farm house in Chikmagalur in Karnataka where he had prepared explosives for carrying out the blasts in Delhi on September 13, 2008.

Regarding Asadullah Akhtar, it said during interrogation of some of the arrested accused persons, it was revealed that Akhtar had purchased cycle ball bearings from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh and he had brought them to Delhi for the blasts.

It also said that in August 2008, Akhtar and some other accused, including Atif Ameen, came to Delhi and took a flat on rent in Batla House.

"As per planning, the bombs were prepared with the help of above cycle ball bearings and planted at various places in Delhi on September 13, 2008 resulted in about 26 casualities and 135 injuries. The e-mail of Delhi blasts was sent by their (IM) media group of Pune, Maharashtra led by Mohd Mansoor Ashgar Peerbhoy (arrested accused) and others," it said.

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