Ahmedabad, Apr 19: The Gujarat government today invoked Pota against 10 persons, including five alleged ISI agents, arrested by city crime branch recently, according to minister of state for home Amit Shah. "The anti-terror law has been slapped on 10 persons, including the five ISI agents, arrested by crime branch for their alleged involvement in assassination of former Gujarat home minister Haren Pandya, attack on VHP leader Pramod Tiwari and carrying out a series of bomb blasts in city municipal transport buses last year," Shah said here today.
"All the ten had links with ISI," Shah said replying to a question.
Ahmedabad crime branch on April 4 had arrested five persons identified as Mohammed Yunus Abdulrahim Sareshwala, Mohammed Pervez Abdul Kayum Sheikh, Mohammed Riyaz alias Goru Abdul Wahib Sareshwala, Rehan Abdul Mujib Punthawala and Munawar Beigh alias captain Yakub Miyan Mirza.

All the five, in their late twenties were trained in using sophisticated explosives and arms and were dispatched to Gujarat to carry out anti-national activities, crime branch sources said.

During interrogation, it was revealed the five were involved in planting "tiffin bombs" in three Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service (AMTS) buses in June last year, sources said.

It has been established that their interrogation had clearly indicated "Hyderabad links" in assassination of senior BJP leader and former Gujarat home and revenue minister Haren Pandya, who was killed on March 26.


Bureau Report