Mumbai blasts convict Jalees Ansari, who jumped parole, arrested in UP

Jalees Ansari, convicted for carrying out several blasts in trains in 1993, was arrested from Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur on Friday, more than 24 hours after he went missing from Mumbai before reporting back to prison at the end of his parole. Ansari, who is known as Dr Bomb, was arrested by a team of Maharashtra anti-terrorism squad with the help of a special task force of Uttar Pradesh police while he was coming out of a mosque at Faithfulganj in Kanpur at around 1pm on Friday. Ansari had gone missing from his second-floor residence at Ittehaad Co-operative Society in Mumbai's Mominpura area on Thursday morning.