Ahmedabad: Police arrested a man 24 years after an arrest warrant was issued against him for smuggling arms and explosives in Gujarat.
Kadir Ahmed (65) is now the 46th arrest made by the Gujarat police for the arms landing case that was registered in Jamnagar in 1993.
A huge cache of RDX and arms, including AK series rifles, were shipped by fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim and landed at Gosabara in the coastal district of Porbander in Gujarat.
This stock of arms, was later distributed to Dawood’s accomplices and other conspirators in Mumbai and other places in the country. The RDX that was landed at Gosabara was also used by Dawood’s accomplices for the 1993 serial blasts that rocked Mumbai.
Of the 61 accused named in the case, 15 are still on the run.
Ahmed, who was arrested from Bijnor by a joint team of Gujarat and UP police, was produced before a magistrate and sent to police custody for 12 days.
Gujarat ATS sources said that the Mumbai police, as part of its investigation in the 1993 blasts case, had raided Ahmed’s house in Bijnor on at least three occasions. They even managed to recover two AK-47 rifles that he had buried in his compound, but Ahmed managed to give police the slip every time.
Asked how could an accused evade the police for as many as 24 years, an official of the Gujarat ATS said, - “Kadir Ahmed is not the only accused who had been absconding. There are still 15 accused in the Gosabara arms landing case who are on the run and these include Dawood, his brother Anees Ibrahim, Tiger Memon and others.”
ATS officials said that for the past one decade or even more, there is no evidence of Ahmed being in touch with any of the other accused in the Gosabara case of the Mumbai serial blast case. “We had information that he had started a readymade garments business and travelled to various cities in north and east India, but earlier attempts to arrest him had failed,” an official said.
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