ATS looking for 54 who got arms training

MUMBAI: The ATS is looking for 54 people who are suspected to have undergone arms training at a military school in Nagpur.

Some of them, the ATS suspects, could be involved in the September 29 Malegaon blast and the 2006 Nanded blast. The ATS is also looking at their role, if any, in the 2006 Malegaon serial blasts that killed more than 30 people.

A senior ATS officer, requesting anonymity, said interrogation of the suspects arrested in connection with the September 29 Malegaon blast has revealed that at least 54 people was given training in handling of arms and explosives at the Bhonsala Military School in Nagpur in 2001.  Turn to p12

When contacted, Suresh Joglekar, director of Bhonsala Military School, said his institute had already answered questions posed to them by the ATS about the camp held by the Bajrang Dal in 2001.

In New Delhi, CBI Director Ashwini Kumar said the agency was trying to find any “possible links” between the Malegaon and Nanded blasts. He said the CBI could also interrogate the suspects arrested by the ATS.

Sources said some of the suspects have told investigators they were in touch with some of those the CBI arrested earlier this year in connection with the Nanded blast.