Third man charged by Yard in Brar attack case
Scotland Yard on Friday charged a third man the attack on Lt. Gen. Kuldip Singh Brar (Retd.) in London by a group of four unidentified men on September 30.
Thirty-six-year-old Dilbag Singh was charged with wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm on Gen. Brar. He was presented at Westminster magistrates’ court.
Dilbag Singh, who does not have a fixed address, was arrested on Thursday in London’s Hammersmith and Fulham borough and was questioned at a central London police station. A 55-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender from the same place. She was released on bail on Thursday and the Met police also conducted a search at the address.
The Met police has till now made 19 arrests as part of its investigation into the attack on Gen. Brar. However, only three persons have been charged for attacking the 78-year-old general, who led the controversial Operation Bluestar in Amritsar in 1984.
Lt. Gen. Brar, who has faced numerous death threats since commanding the controversial Operation Bluestar, had described the attack on him and his wife by four men as an assassination attempt by Khalistan-linked extremists.
On October 8, 33-year old Barjinder Singh Sangha and 34-year-old Mandeep Singh Sandhu were formally charged with wounding Lt. Gen. Brar.
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1 arrested in Ghatkopar blast case
Dippy Vankani
Mumbai, Nov. 23
One of the alleged conspirators of the 2002 Ghatkopar bomb blast, who was working as a software engineer with a software firm in Hyderabad under a fake name, was arrested by the crime branch on Friday.
The police said that the accused had fled Mumbai after the blasts and was living with his wife and five children. Two persons were killed and 28 injured on December 6, 2002, when at around 6.45 pm a bomb placed under a seat of an empty BEST bus exploded near the busy Ghatkopar station. The bomb was placed in the rear of an the bus parked near the station.
The crime intelligence unit of the Mumbai crime branch on Friday arrested Taj-Ul-Islam Quazi from Hyderabad. “He was a conspirator in the 2002 blast of Ghatkopar. He was working as a software engineer with HCL in Hyderabad under an assumed name Siddiqui Taj Quazi,” said Himanshu Roy, joint commissioner of police (crime).
Mr Roy said that Quazi, originally from Aurangabad, was a key member of the group headed by Dr Abdul Mateen.
Quazi was produced before court that remanded him to police custody till December 3.
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