Guwahati, Jan 05: In the first arrest in connection
with the New Year's Day blasts here, a man who had allegedly
supplied explosives to the prime suspect was nabbed and was
remanded in seven days of police custody by a court on Monday.
Sanjeeb Talukdar had supplied the explosives to ULFA
leader Pranjal Deka who used them for triggering three blasts
that claimed 5 lives and injured over 50 others, DIG (Central-
Western Range) G P Singh said.
Talukdar was arrested yesterday and produced today
before the Kamrup chief judicial magistrate who remanded him
in police custody.
"Investigations are heading in the right direction and
very soon the others involved in the blasts will be booked,"
Singh said.
Talukdar told waiting reporters outside the court that
he had been acting as a carrier for ULFA for the past six
months and had handed over the explosives to Deka at the
Adabari bus stand here.
The police had released Deka's photograph as the prime
suspect a day after the blasts.
Three serial blasts had rocked the state's main city on
January 1 in Birubari, Bhootnath and Bhangagarh areas.
Bureau Report
First Published: Monday, January 05, 2009, 00:00