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One year on, 7/11 masterminds still at large
A year after India's financial capital was rocked by a series of
horrific train bombings, the men who masterminded the terror attack
are still at large, though 13 suspects are being put on trial later
this month.
The deadly explosions took place one after another along the city's
suburban railway lines and train stations on the evening of July 11,
2006, killing 186 people and wounding many more. Though Mumbai
Police's crack Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) responsible for the
investigations into the serial blasts arrested 13 suspects, the
prime conspirators - including Pakistan-based terror outfit
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief Azam Cheema along with three other
Pakistani nationals, alleged to be explosive planters - are still at
large.
Though the ATS claimed a major breakthrough with the arrest of the
13 suspects who were charge-sheeted in November last year, only four
alleged bombers are among them. "The masterminds have escaped. Take
the case of Cheema. He has been named in a series of terror attacks
around the country, all the while operating allegedly from his
Pakistan hideout," said Y.P. Singh, a former Indian Police Service (IPS)
officer and now prominent lawyer here.
A senior ATS official said, "Cheema operates from a LeT camp in
Bahawalpur in northern Pakistan. He was named in the Aurangabad arms
haul in May 2006. He then carried out the 7/11 bombings. And his
name has cropped up in the Samjhauta Express blasts of February 2007
as well. "For the 7/11 plot Cheema had recruited seven local bombers
along with seven Pakistani counterparts and trained them at LeT's
camps in Pakistan. Cheema along with 11 Pakistani terror operatives
had entered India in three groups through different routes to carry
out the bombings with local operatives belonging to the banned
Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI)."
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