Mumbai: Afzal Usmani, a suspected member of terror group Indian Mujahideen, has reportedly escaped after he was brought by cops to a Mumbai court for a hearing of his case. The police said he “disappeared” outside the court. A massive manhunt has been launched. Usmani was being brought to court for framing of charges today. He is suspected to have supplied the cars that transported explosives for the 2008 blasts in Ahmedabad and an attempted bombing in Surat the same year and also of having planted the bombs.
His arrest from Uttar Pradesh in August 2008 had led to a big breakthrough for the Mumbai crime branch, which later claimed that it had succeeded in cracking the Maharashtra module of the Indian Mujahideen based on information from him. Usmani’s alleged career in crime began as a member of a Mumbai underworld gang. He was booked for attempt to murder in 1996. His name had also cropped up during investigations into many cases of firing in Mumbai.
Bureau Report
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