LeT associate admits to planting explosives in July 11

Bangaon, Apr 22 (UNI) Lashkar-e-Toiba associate Sk Shamir, who was arrested from Petrapole rpt Petrapole in North 24 Parganas on April two, has admitted having planted explosives in at least five places at different railway stations in Mumbai and its adjoining areas last year triggering the July 11 blasts.

This was revealed from the narco-analysis tests conducted on the accused in Bangalore on April 15, CID, West Bengal, sources said here today.

The narco-analysis report of the two Indian associates of Laskar-e-Toiba will be reaching here by next week, the sources added.

While Sk Shamir was sent on transit remand, his Kashmiri associate Mujaffar Ahmed Khan was remanded to judicial custody till May Two. Both were sent to Bangalore last week for the tests.

The latter is likely to give a confession statement before a Magistrate under 164 CrPC, the sources indicated.

The test revealed that Sk Shamir is a BSc graduate, having good knowledge in chemistry and chemical explosives, the CID sources said.

The narcotic tests and the admission of Sk Shamir throw light on his active involvement in the Mumbai blasts that left not less than 150 people dead and about 300 others injured. Mumbai experienced explosions at seven railway stations and a running passenger train within a few minutes on July 11 last year.

The reported admission of Sk Shamir prompted the Maharashtra police to interrogate him and prayed for transit remand before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate here today and obtained permission to take him to their custody.

Sk Shamir would be taken to Mumbai. ACJM D N Mitra has granted transit remand for seven days, directing Mumbai police to produce him before the court on April 29.

Earlier, of the extremist quartet, two Pakistanis Sk Abdullah and Md Yunus, were produced before the same court on April 18 and remanded to judicial custody for 14 days.

CID sources said Shamir had slipped into Kolkata immediately after carrying out his job in Mumbai and has been residing here since then.

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