Ahmedabad serial blasts: five more chargesheets filed

Ahmedabad, Feb 4 (PTI) The police here in India's western
state of Gujarat have filed five more chargesheets in
connection with last year's serial blasts here, which claimed
the lives of 57 people.

All the chargesheets have more than 1,000 pages each and
blame Indian Mujahideen (IM) and SIMI operatives for the
explosions, Crime Branch officials said.

The documents give details of how the different IM
modules worked in coordination to successfully execute the
terror attack.

"Roles of Gujarat, Mumbai, Delhi and Karnataka IM
modules, who worked in tandem to carry out the attack, as well
as that of each individual in the modules have been described
in detail in the documents," the officials said.

The chargesheets filed in the designated court here
related to blasts at Sarkhej, Maninagar (two cases), Kalupur
and Vatva areas, the officials said.

"There were 21 blasts in different parts of the city on
July 26, 2008. The Crime Branch has treated each blast as a
separate case and has been filing chargesheets in each case,"
they said, adding chargesheets in the remaining cases would be
filed soon.

The documents have named 54 accused and 47 absconders in
the Sarkhej case, including alleged masterminds of the blasts
Amir Raza Khan, Riyaz Bhatkal and Iqbal Bhatkal, 44 accused
and 48 absconders in the Maninagar case and 43 accused and 45
absconders in the Vatva and Kalupur cases. PTI