What the Doctor Ordered Continues ……….

The conviction of all fifteen accused individuals with sentences to life imprisonment in a single case was a rare occurrence in the history of the Indian police.

Dr Ansari and his co-conspirators are today in Ajmer Central Jail serving their life sentences. On 6 April 2000, Azam Ghauri, one of the three masterminds, was killed in an encounter with Hyderabad Police in Jagtiyal, now in Telengana state. Seventeen years after the killing of Azam Ghauri, the Delhi Police arrested the third mastermind, Abdul Karim Tunda, at the Indo-Nepal border on 16 August 2017. He is currently lodged in Ajmer Jail and is still undergoing trial in the serial train blast cases of 6 December 1993.

This was one of the major cases I was associated with during my nine-year stint in the CBI. The unearthing of the countrywide network of a terror group, whose existence was, until then, unknown to any state police force or to any intelligence agency, has been a matter of great personal satisfaction.

Besides the resolution of the serial train blast cases, the mystery behind over forty intermittent bomb blasts in and around Mumbai, including the blasts at gurdwaras and police stations, was solved. A deadly terror group had been identified and put away and scores of people saved from deadly terror attacks.

Concluded !

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