NEW DELHI: In yet another breakthrough in the Bombay blasts case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) have arrested six members of Memon family, Last week, they were reminded to 14 days CBI custody by a metropolitan magistrate of Patiala House courts.

The arrest of the six proclaimed offenders, who include two women but not Tiger Memon one of the two prime accused in the case still at large has however raised more questions than the investigating persons are Tiger’s parents Abdul Razak Memon Hanifa Memon, their three sons Suleman Yusuf and Issa and Suleman’s wife Rubina.

It is teamed thar all the six were flown here from Dubai hast week by an Air India fight. The official spokesman of the CBI insisted that they were arrested “at New Delhi,” maintaining that the CBI was not empowered to make any arrest outside India.

Article extracted from this publication >> September 2, 1994