Two held for Charar-e-Sharief blast

By Shujaat Bukhari

SRINAGAR, JULY 12. The Badgam police today claimed to have solved the grenade blast case at the Charar-e-Sharief shrine where six women devotees were killed and 40 injured on June 8.

Giving the details, the DIG Kashmir range, Mr. K. Rajindra, said that the Badgam district police had arrested two persons, Shahnawaz Hussain Baba alias Naaz Mukar, and Shahnawaz Ahmed Dar alias Nana Duba. Both the accused, he said, had targeted the Station House Officer, Charar-e-Sharief, and his party who were on duty there on that day.

The DIG said they concealed the grenade in a black polythene bag and hurled it when the Friday prayer was about to start. After the blast, they took away a bullet-proof jacket from the vehicle belonging to the Rajpora police station in which an official had come to pay obeisance at the shrine, thus giving an impression to the devotees and others that police was responsible for throwing the grenade.

The accused, Mr. Rajindra said, had links with banned organisations. One of them had received Rs. 500 for throwing the grenade. More arrests were likely.

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