Media Eye News Bureau: The Delhi Police has reportedly arrested a wanted Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative named Ariz Khan from the Indo-Nepal border where he was working as a primary school teacher.
He escaped from the scene of the 2008 Batla House encounter and was allegedly involved in serial blasts in Delhi, Ahmedabad, Varanasi, Faizabad, Lucknow and Jaipur.
Pramod Kushwah, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) said, “He was an expert bomb maker… He was the mastermind of operations that caused the deaths of 165 persons and injured another 536. He was directly involved in these operations.”
He added, “On 17 November, 2007, Khan and his associates carried out bombings in three courts in Uttar Pradesh as revenge for lawyers thrashing three Jaish-e-Mohammed terror accused and for refusing to represent them in court. Five minutes before the blasts, the IM owned up to their involvement through emails to media organisations. Khan had personally planted explosives in the M-block market in south Delhi’s Greater Kailash. Apart from GK, blasts occurred in Connaught Place and Karol Bagh. Unexploded bombs were recovered from CP, India Gate and Parliament Street. Thirty persons were killed and 100 injured in those blasts in the city.”
