09/01/2009

Gujarat madarsa teacher detained in Bihar for Modassa blast

 

Patna, (Bihar Times): A team of Gujarat police on Wednesday night picked up Mohammad Allarakha alias Ghulam Mustafa, alleged to be a terror suspect involved in a bomb blast and other activities, from a village in Banka district of Bihar.

The team led by an IPS officer picked up Allarakha, son of Mohammad Hafiz, from his village Chutia Bellari under the Shambhuganj police station. According to an official of Bihar police he is being interrogated by the Gujarat police at an undisclosed place. The Bihar police assisted the Gujarat counterpart in the operation.

Media reports quoting sources said that the Gujarat police were on the lookout for Allarakha for his alleged role in a bomb blast in Modasa town on September 29 last year. It needs to be mentioned that Pragya Singh Thakur and Colonel Purohit were also suspected to be involved in Malegaon (Maharashtra) and Modassa (Gujarat) blasts.

Reports also said that Allarakha was a teacher at a madrassa at Himmatnagar in Gujarat. After the blast, however, he returned to his native village. According to villagers he led a simple life back home, doing odd works like supplying stone chips for construction of houses etc.

However, police said that he had not been arrested as of now.


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