MUMBAI, SEPT 8
Nearly seven months after a powerful blast ripped through Pune’s German Bakery killing 17 and wounding 56, Maharashtra’s Anti-Terrorism Squad on Wednesday claimed to have made a breakthrough in the case with the arrest of two LeT operatives.
Mirza Himayat Baig (29), who heads LeT’s operations in Maharashtra, was arrested from Mahatma Gandhi bus stand in Pune on Tuesday afternoon, while his aide Shaikh Lalbaba Mohammed Hussain alias Bilal (27) was nabbed from Subash Chandra Bose Marg in Nashik Tuesday night, Maharashtra ATS chief Rakesh Maria announced at a crowded press conference.
Baig and Bilal were produced before courts in Pune and Nashik which remanded them in ATS custody till September 20 and 16 respectively for interrogation.
“Both played a key role in triggering the Pune blast. The conspiracy was hatched in Udgir town in Latur district in January this year,” Maria, Additional Director General of Police, ATS, said.
