The 30-year-old mastermind in the German Bakery blast, Mirza Himayat Inayat Baig, had purchased a Nokia cell phone and a sack from Mumbai.
The 30-year-old mastermind in the German Bakery blast, Mirza Himayat Inayat Baig, had purchased a Nokia cell phone and a sack from Mumbai. While the cell phone was used by Baig to trigger the blast, the sack was used to keep the explosives used in the blast.
In its 2,405-page charge sheet against the seven accused, including Baig, the state anti-terrorism squad (ATS) gave a vivid description how the February 13 blast was planned and carried out. It killed 17 people, including five foreigners, and 56 injured. The court of judicial magistrate first class handed over a copy of the charge sheet to Baig on Monday.
Assistant commissioner of police (ATS, Pune) Vinod Satav had filed the charge sheet against Baig and other six others — Mohsin Choudhary, Yasin Bhatkal, Riyaz Bhatkal, Iqbal Bhatkal, Faiyaz Kagzi and Zabiuddin Ansari — on Saturday. All the six are absconding and are believed to be outside India.
Baig, who was arrested on September 7, from Mahatma Gandhi Bus stand in Camp area of the city, was produced before ATS judge Swarup Bose at 11.45am on Monday. After handing over the charge sheet to Baig, the court commissioned the case to special court of judge Usha Tahakre for the trial.
In the charge sheet, the ATS has alleged that Baig started a cyber café; in Udgir some 300 km away from Pune and used 25 different email IDs to communicate with the other wanted accused.
“Yasin Bhatkal and Mohsin Choudhary, on instruction of Riyaz Bhatkal, went to Baig’s place in Udgir in the last week of January to discuss and finalise the plan to carry out the blast,” the agency stated in the charge sheet.
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