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Two held over Mumbai blasts
06/09/2008 14:36 - (SA)
Kathmandu - Nepalese police have arrested and deported two key suspects in serial bomb blasts in the Indian city of Mumbai in 1993, media reports said on Saturday.
The two - Salim Ghazi and Riyaz Khatri - were arrested from a residential area in Kathmandu where they had been hiding, the Kathmandu Post newspaper reported.
The newspaper said the two were arrested on Thursday following a tip-off.
Both were on the Interpol's list of wanted criminals and accused of murder and involvement in terrorist activities.
Salim Ghazi is known for his underworld affinity to Chhota Shakeel and that the Indian police suspected he was hiding in Pakistan, the newspaper said.
"The two had been staying in Kathmandu for a long time in the guise of businessmen dealing in handicraft and operating a recruitment agency," chief of Kathmandu police Upendra Kant Aryal said.
"We extradited them to India on Friday evening as they had not been involved in crime in Nepal," Aryal said.
The blasts on March 12, 1993 in Mumbai killed 257 people and injured more than 700 others. The blasts targeted the stock exchange, hotels, cinema, markets and an airport.
- Sapa-dpa
- SAPA
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