New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency(NIC) has announced a reward of 200,000 for any information that may lead to arrest of Ashwini Chauhan, a key suspect of Samjhauta Express blast 2007, who allegedly did recce on the train, an Indian daily reported on Sunday.
The newspaper reported that the NIC have come to know that Chauhan is well-versed in Urdu and frequently visited mosques and tried to procure cycle ball-bearings, used in explosive devices as shrapnel.
Investigators said that the bombs used in the Samjhauta Express were kept in suitcases bought from a shop in Indore’s Kothari Market, the probe team has found. The suitcases had cloth covers stitched by a local tailor.
According to Swami Aseemanand’s statement before a Delhi magistrate, it was a group led by Sunil Joshi that firebombed the Samjhauta train. Aseemanand also said that he and other Hindu activists carried out blasts at Muslim religious places as part of a bomb-for-bomb policy. He was arrested in November in connection with the Mecca Masjid blast case.
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