Ghatkopar blast accused held

Subhash Yadav (in white jacket) and Manoj Singh after being arrested by the police during an encounter in the Thakurganj area of Lucknow on Friday. Yadav is an accused in Ghatkopar (Mumbai) bomb blast of 2006,in which one person died.

Yadav,who hails from Azamgarh,is named in 19 criminal cases — involving murder,loot and dacoity — lodged at various police stations in Azamgarh and Ballia. Manoj Singh is from Jharkhand. A country-made pistol was found on one of them. “In the Mumbai case,Yadav and others were making a bomb inside a room when it went off. One of them,Ramu,died on the spot. The police lodged FIR against three persons including Yadav. The other two are Babloo and Ashutosh,” said Hemant Rai,in-charge of Thakurganj police station.