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Godhra’s ISI links bared?
GODHRA
Strong indications of the
involvement of Pakistan's ISI in the Sabarmati Express massacre that left
58 persons killed was evident during preliminary investigations and some
of the 28 pesons arrested in connection with the attack travelled abroad
recently, police said here today.
Talking to newsmen here, the DIG (Anti-Terrorist cell) Vipul Vijay
referred to the possibility of ISI's involvement in the attack but refused
to give details.
Mr Vijay said the cases of those among the 28 persons who have been
travelling abroad will be pursued vigorously without relying only on the
local police. He, however, declined to give the countries where they
travelled to.
"We have certain names who have been travelling abroad. They are very
prosperous. They are carrying duplicate papers and we will pursue these
cases vigorously," Mr Vijay said.
Mr Vijay also said some of the arrested persons have links with Ahmedababd-based
don Abdul Lateef.
He said investigations also showed that the Mohammed Hussain Kalota, a
local Congress leader and key suspect in the massacre, was present at the
Railway Station on Wednesday morning during the attack and was directing
the mob to target the train carrying scores of Ram Sewaks from Avodhya.
According to a UNI report from Gandhinagar, The Gujarat government is
probing the possible involvement into the Godhra conspiracy of
Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami (HuJI), a new terrorist outfit, some of whose
activists had been arrested last month in Surat and whose self-styled
'deputy commander' was arrested by the Kolkata police on March 1 from the
Bengal-Bihar border while he was trying to cross over to Bangladesh.
Official sources said here today it was also being probed whether this
'deputy commander', who, the Kolkata police suspected to be one of the
masterminds behind the Godhra incident, had any connection with Haji Bilal,
a petty pickpocket-turned-municipal corporator of Godhra, who went missing
soon after the train carnage.
Bilal had allegedly raised obstacles in the way and prevented the Fire
Brigade from reaching the site of the carnage to douse fires of Sabarmati
Express on February 27. He was said to have been helped in this task by
some activists of the banned Students Islamic Federation of India (SIMI)
some of whose members, too, had been arrested a few weeks ago in Surat.
As the mystery begins to unravel behind the ''pre-planned conspiracy'' and
the gathering of a crowd of about 2,000 miscreants within five minutes of
the train leaving the station at the notorious site of the blaze, Signal
Falia, a km from Godhra railway station, the authorities are probing
another dimension of the tragedy — whether it was all planned as early as
a year ago?
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