Central agency to take over Gujarat blast probe
By IANSThursday, June 24, 2010
GANDHINAGAR - Gujarat Police are awaiting the arrival of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) team to hand over the probe into the 2008 blast in Sabarkantha district’s Modasa town in which one person was killed.
“It is alright with us,” said Gujarat police chief S.S. Khandwawala, reacting to the central government’s decision to transfer the probe from the police to NIA.
The union home ministry intimated the police that it was taking over the investigation of the Modasa blast case which has remained unsolved for almost two years.
A blast near a mosque in Modasa town of north Gujarat Sep 29, 2008 killed a 15-year-old boy and injured many others.
The transfer of the probe to the NIA follows some links unearthed between the Modasa blast and an explosion in Malegaon in Maharashtra in 2006 which killed four people.
