A TADA court in Mumbai today sent Farooq Takla, an accused of 1993 serial bomb blasts case to CBI custody till March 19.
Takla who is a close aide of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim was arrested by the CBI earlier today.
Wanted in connection with the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, Mustak Mohammad Miya alias Farooq Takla was at the immigration office of the Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi when a CBI team arrested him as an Interpol Red Corner notice had been issued against him. He was travelling from Dubai.
The Central intelligence agencies had been working to secure arrest or deportation of Takla, who has been designated by the US authorities as a global terrorist and faces sanctions in the United Nations.
According to the CBI, Takla and his brother Mohmad Ahmad Mansoor provided logistic support to some of the blast accused in Dubai, from where they were sent for arms training to Pakistan.
The serial blasts in the country's financial capital on March 12, 1993 left 257 people dead, 713 seriously injured and destroyed property worth 27 crore rupees.
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