A 68-year-old convict of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, Jalees Ansari, who had gone missing on Thursday after he jumped parole, has been arrested in Kanpur today. Ansari, also known as Dr Bomb, was leaving a mosque in the city and headed to the railway station when he was caught by the Uttar Pradesh Police’s Special Task Force, police said.
“Jalees Ansari has been arrested when he was coming out from a mosque. He has been brought to Lucknow. It is a big achievement of the UP Police,” said Uttar Pradesh top cop OP Singh.
Ansari, originally a resident of UP’s Sant Kabir Nagar district and who holds a MBBS degree, may have been trying to leave the country through the Nepal route, police said, and added he was arrested due to an anonymous tip off to a senior STF officer.
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Source: NDTV