A suspect in the 2002 terror attack on American Centre in Kolkata was arrested from Bihar’s Gaya district, police said today.
A team of Gujarat’s Anti-Terrorist Squad, Jharkhand Police and Bihar Police arrested Mohammad Sarwar from Neemchak Bathani police station area late last night, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Magadh, Saurabh Kumar said.
“In a joint operation, Md Sarwar has been arrested and is presently being interrogated in Hazaribagh”, said SP Gaya Avkash Kumar.Avkansh Kumar, SP, Gaya
Sarwar was arrested on a lead presented by another terror operative recently captured by Gujarat police, Mohammad Hasan, a distant relative of Sarwar.
He is also a suspect in an attack on a CBI team and Jharkhand Police in Hazaribagh in 2002. In that incident, two attackers were killed but Sarwar had managed to escape.
Two motorcycle-borne men had indiscriminately fired with an AK-47 assault rifle at policemen outside the American Centre on Jawaharlal Nehru Road in Kolkata on 22 January 2002 killing six of them and injuring 14 others.
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