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Mecca Masjid blast anniversary passes off
peacefully
Wednesday May 18, 2011 08:54:10 PM,
IANS
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Hyderabad: The fourth
anniversary of the bomb blast at the historic Mecca Masjid here
passed off peacefully amid tight security.
The afternoon prayers at the 17th century mosque passed off
peacefully as police made elaborate security arrangements in the
old city and other communally sensitive areas.
Rapid Action Force and other central paramilitary forces along
with the city police and Andhra Pradesh Special Police were
deployed to maintain law and order.
Police have also banned meetings and rallies across the city for
six days.
Nine persons were killed and 58 others injured in the blast at the
historic mosque May 18, 2007. Five persons were killed in the
subsequent police firing on protestors near the mosque.
Police had initially blamed Harkatul Jihad-e-Islami and other
terror groups operating from Pakistan and Bangladesh and arrested
scores of local youth for their suspected involvement.
Subsequent probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
revealed the involvement of Hindu terror outfits.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which recently took up
the investigations, Monday filed supplementary chargesheet against
Swami Aseemanand for his alleged role in the conspiracy behind the
blast.
Nabakumar Sarkar, also known as Swami Aseemanand, who is also an
accused in the Samhjauta Express bomb blast case, was arrested
from Haridwar Nov 19, 2010.
The NIA has also named Indresh Kumar, an associate of Aseemanand,
in the charge-sheet. He is absconding.
Earlier, the CBI had filed charge sheet against accused Devender
Gupta and Lokesh Sharma. Both are in judicial custody.
The Hyderabad police in July last year arrested terror suspect
Viquaruddin and five others, who allegedly floated a terror outfit
Tehreek Galba-e-Islam (TGI) in 2007 to avenge the police firing
following the bomb blast at Mecca Masjid.
The accused allegedly shot dead a police constable in the old city
of Hyderabad May 13, 2010, five days before the third anniversary.
In a similar attack on the second anniversary of the blast, they
had shot dead a home guard and injured a policeman.
United Muslim Forum (UMF), an apex body of Muslim organisations,
has urged the government to speed up the investigations into the
blast.
It also demanded that the report of the Bhaskar Rao commission,
which probed the police firing following the bomb blast, be made
public.
The commission submitted its report to the government last year.
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