Cops claim to have pieced together 7/11 missing links

S Ahmed Ali / TNN / Oct 27, 2006, 00:10 IST

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A fortnight after seven accused in the 7/11 train blasts case retracted their statements to the police, ATS claimed to have pieced together the missing links.

Cops claim to have pieced together 7/11 missing links

MUMBAI: A fortnight after seven accused in the 7/11 serial train blasts case retracted their statements to the police, Anti-Terrorism Squad claimed to have pieced together the missing links in the case.
"From interrogating four accused arrested of late, we have got the missing links and are more confident of convicting the accused in the court of law," ATS chief K P Raghuvanshi said on Thursday.
The four, who allegedly confessed before the metropolitan magistrate, are Mohammed Ali, Sajid Ansari, Mohammed Naved Hussain Khan and Abdul Majid.
According to ATS, Mohammed Ali, a resident of Shivaji Nagar slums in eastern suburbs of Mumbai, had allegedly said that he allowed seven Pakistanis to stay in his 10x10 room and assemble seven bombs.

Mohammed Majeed, another accused arrested from Kolkata, allegedly confessed that he escorted six of 11 Pakistani nationals and to having arranged rented flats for them in Malad and Malwani.
Sajid Ansari, another accused, a mobile mechanic and resident of Jogeshwari, allegedly told the police that he helped Pakistanis in making electronic circuits which were used with the timer in the seven bombs.
Lastly, Mohammed Naved allegedly confessed he had kept the bomb inside the railway compartment, which went off at Khar railway station.

Naved, a software programmer who recently got a job in a Hyderabad company, also said that he was Faisal Shaikh's friend and on his instructions had carried the bombs from Mohammed Ali's residence to Faisal's rented house in Bandra where timers were attached to the bombs.
Raghuvanshi said Junaid alias Asif, a civil engineer and a resident of Naya Nagar in Mira road, the only accused left in lock-up, told them he had given logistic support to the Pakistanis.
"With the help of Interpol, we have issued red-corner notices for absconding accused Rahil Shaikh and Rizwan Dawre," said DCP Naval Bajaj.

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S Ahmed Ali

S Ahmed Ali, principal correspondent at The Times of India, Mumbai, covers crime and related isues but sometimes he also takes up offbeat subjects. His interests: automobiles particularly bikes, and gymming.

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