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Godhra carnage accused held

BHADOHI APRIL 11. In a major catch, police today arrested top SIMI activist and a conspirator in the Godhra train carnage, Anwar Rashid, in Bhadohi district of Uttar Pradesh.

Rashid, a resident of Bhadohi, was wanted in connection with the Godhra train carnage, the Superintendent of Police, B.P. Tripathi, told reporters here.

A top office-bearer of the Students Islamic Movement of India, Rashid had confessed that he had issued directives regarding the carnage to his contacts in Godhra on phone from Bhadohi, the SP said. The DIG (Mirzapur), Guru Darshan Singh, told PTI that Rashid's role in the carnage was established on the basis of the phone calls he had made a day before the attack

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