NEW DELHI: According to the United News of India (UNI), Indian police have arrested a suspected Kashmiri militant in connection with two bomb blasts that killed 27 people last month, including one in the heart of New Delhi. The news agency quoted police in the western state of Gujarat as saying they arrested Asadulla (one name) at a hotel in the state capital of Ahmedabad and recovered incriminating documents.
A car bomb exploded on May 21 in New Delhi’s fashionable Lajpat Nagar market, setting fire to shops and killing 13 people. A day later a bomb exploded: on a bus near Dausa in the nearby northwestern state of Rajasthan, killing 14 people. Persons claiming to represent two Kashmiri separatist groups—Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front and Lashkar e Sajjad—and Sikh militant K Liberation Force, had made rival claims of responsibility for the So Police had said they believed the two blasts were linked and they were hunting: Kashmiri militant suspects for the attacks, carried out as campaigning ended and voting began in controversial elections in the Jammu and Kashmir state.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 12, 1996
