Ranchi: National Investigation Agency has arrested a doctor working with a leading private hospital for alleged connections with terrorists. The operation was carried out with the help of local police. Police officers have also arrested another man, Shoaib Akhtar, from a lodge here. NIA team is interrogating both of them and trying to get more information in connection with Patna blasts case.
Investigating officers have procured important information from the laptop of a alleged terrorist Haider. Information so collected proved instrumental in the latest arrests. NIA and local police teams have been carrying out regular raids in Jharkhand for the last three-four days in pursuit of criminals involved in the blasts.
A conspiracy had been hatched to harm Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi, the National Investigation Agency claimed on Wednesday, saying it has cracked last year's Patna serial blasts case with the arrest of four persons including a juvenile allegedly having association with banned terror groups like SIMI and Indian Mujhaideen.
Terming it as a "big success", NIA Director General Sharad Kumar told reporters at a hurriedly called press conference here that "definitely the conspiracy among these people was to harm Modiji. The people whom we have arrested earlier in the Patna blast case had said that they had recced Modi's rallies and went there to see how to get near him.
The central intelligence agencies had been trying to crack the Patna blast case especially after the arrest of Yasin Bhatkal who was nabbed from Bihar last year.
On October 27 last year, a bomb exploded on platform No 10 of the Patna Railway Station ahead of Modi’s rally.
Later, blasts took place at Gandhi Maidan outside the rally.
The NIA had named the four as absconding accused in its charge sheet filed earlier. So far, eight persons have been arrested in this case.
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