Patna serial blasts suspect escapes from NIA custody

Suspect Meher Alam manages to hoodwink NIA sleuths

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BS Reporter New Delhi
Last Updated : Oct 31 2013 | 5:41 PM IST
One of the suspects in the Patna serial blasts, Meher-e-Alam, who was picked up from Darbhanga in north Bihar a couple of days ago and detained for questioning, has escaped from custody in Muzaffarpur on Thursday.
 
According to TV reports, Alam managed to hoodwink National Investigation Agency (NIA) sleuths. 
 
Meher-e-Alam is a close aide of Tehseen Akhtar, a top operative of the Indian Mujahideen, who allegedly mentored the Patna bombers. 
 

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Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde gave the NIA charge of the blasts' probe at the behest of the Bihar CM.  
 
Details are awaited.

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First Published: Oct 31 2013 | 4:53 PM IST

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