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Deported Mumbai blast accused throw light on Pak involvement
New Delhi, Mar 28: The interrogation of the two accused of the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts deported from Dubai - Ejaz Pathan and Mustafa Dossa - has thrown fresh light on involvement of Pakistan and its intelligence agency, ISI, in the serial bomb blasts that left 257 people dead and damaged property worth Rs 30 crore.
New Delhi, Mar 28: The interrogation of the two accused of the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts deported from Dubai - Ejaz Pathan and Mustafa Dossa - has thrown fresh light on involvement of Pakistan and its intelligence agency, ISI, in the serial bomb blasts that left 257 people dead and damaged property worth Rs 30 crore.
"They have spoken about Pakistan and how they were used by ISI and also how they obtained Pakistani passports despite being Indian nationals," CBI director P C Sharma said here.
To a question whether he was upset after Dubai police released underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's brother Anis despite a deportation request pending against him, the CBI director replied "his release was a bad experience."
However, he said that the co-operation extended by the UAE and efforts put in by authorities in New Delhi, especially the external affairs ministry, have made it possible to have two of the accused deported to India and stand trial.
Sharma said that the present co-operation was worth emulation by other countries as well. "I hope we will get more people who are on list of wanted persons," the CBI director said.
Referring to Abu Salem, another main accused in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blast and presently in custody of the Portugese authorities, the CBI director said, "He continues to be under detention and the Lisbon authorities are screening our extradition request. We are hopeful that desired results would come."
Bureau Report
To a question whether he was upset after Dubai police released underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's brother Anis despite a deportation request pending against him, the CBI director replied "his release was a bad experience."
However, he said that the co-operation extended by the UAE and efforts put in by authorities in New Delhi, especially the external affairs ministry, have made it possible to have two of the accused deported to India and stand trial.
Sharma said that the present co-operation was worth emulation by other countries as well. "I hope we will get more people who are on list of wanted persons," the CBI director said.
Referring to Abu Salem, another main accused in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blast and presently in custody of the Portugese authorities, the CBI director said, "He continues to be under detention and the Lisbon authorities are screening our extradition request. We are hopeful that desired results would come."
Bureau Report