Godhra carnage key accused held in Malegaon

AHMEDABAD: Ahmedabad Police on Wednesday arrested a man, who is one of the key conspirators in the attack on the Sabarmati Express at Gujarat’s Godhra railway station

AHMEDABAD: Ahmedabad Police on Wednesday arrested a man, who is one of the key conspirators in the attack on the Sabarmati Express at Gujarat’s Godhra railway station in 2002, from Malegaon in Maharashtra. Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) officials said Imran Batuk, who was absconding for 14 years, was among those who had set the S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express on fire near the Godhra railway station on February 27, 2002. As many as 59 people, mostly kar sevaks who were returning from a visit to Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh, were killed in the incident that triggered widespread communal riots in the state. “Imran’s name figures in the second chargesheet (of the carnage case) as one of the main accused,” a police officer said.

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