Hubli church blast suspects remanded to police custody

By Our Special Correspondent

HUBLI, JULY 16. Rishi Hiremath and Muniruddeen Mulla, arrested in connection with the explosion at a church in Hubli, were produced before the magistrate here on Sunday. They were remanded to police custody for 14 days.

Police did not allow photographers to take pictures of the two, who were produced before the Magistrate at his residence in Santosh Nagar. Hiremath and Mulla are joint secretary and secretary respectively of the Hubli unit of the Deendar Anjuman, a Hyderabad-based organisation said to be behind the church blasts in South India.

Police have sealed the local office of the Deendar Anjuman.

Rishi Hiremath is the son of Mr. Basavaraj Hiremath, a junior engineer in the Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation. He has a Muslim mother. The only son of the Hiremaths, Rishi is an instrumentation engineering graduate. His family sources said Rishi, who has also married a Muslim, had become spiritual of late and visited Hyderabad frequently on the pretext of taking computer training.

Mr. Basavaraj Hiremath said he was unaware of the activities of his son and felt ``ashamed on learning about it.''

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