Four More Arrested For Blasts Targeting Narendra Modi’s Patna Rally

Mangalore Today News Network

Patna, May 21, 2014:  Four suspected Indian Mujahideen men have been arrested for alleged involvement in the October 27 serial blasts in Patna targeting Narendra Modi’s rally.

 

The suspects, identified as Haider, Numan, Taufeeq, and Muzibullah, were arrested by the National Investigation Agency or NIA from a village on the outskirts of Ranchi.

They allegedly planned and executed the Patna bombings along with Tehseen Akhtar, the current chief of the Indian Mujahideen, who was arrested in March from a village close to the Nepal border.

Among them, Haidar or ’Black Beauty’ is believed to be the head of the Ranchi module of the Indian Mujahideen.

Seven people were killed in eight blasts just ahead of Mr Modi’s Hunkar rally in Patna’s Gandhi Maidan on October 27 to campaign for the national election.

The NIA has arrested eight accused in the case till now. A ninth accused was killed while he was planting a bomb at the Patna railway station.

Mr Modi, 63, is set to be sworn in as Prime Minister on Monday.