Ahmedabad, Sept 08: City crime branch today filed chargesheets against 21 persons, including five ISI agents, for their alleged involvement in the "tiffin" bomb blasts in a bus in Manipur village near here last year. The accused have been booked under Pota for their alleged involvement in "conspiracy to foment large-scale terrorist activities in the state, including assassination of top political leaders and industrialists, apparently to avenge post-Godhra communal violence".
Assistant Commissioner of Police (crime branch) G L Singhal, filing chargesheet in the special Pota court, also named four persons as absconding, including prime conspirator in Haren Pandya assassination case Mufti Sufiyan Patangiya.
The chargesheet alleged that the accused had conspired to create terror in the minds of a large section of the majority community to avenge the post-Godhra communal violence.
Two officials of the bomb disposal squad were injured as the device exploded while they were trying to defuse it.
The case investigations were transferred from the Ahmedabad (rural) police to crime branch this year.
On April 12 this year the crime branch had arrested ISI agents Mohammed Yunus Sareshwala, Mohd Abdul Kayoom Sheikh, Abdul Wahid, Mohd Riaz alias Goru and Mohd Pervez Sheikh. Further probe led to the arrest of one Hanif Theliwala, in whose bag-manufacturing unit, the "tiffin" bombs were allegedly assembled in sensitive Dariapur area.
The bombs were allegedly designed by Mulla Kaleem who owned an electronic repair shop and was arrested from Hyderabad with two others for their alleged involvement in the Pandya murder case. Bureau Report