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Six charged for Varanasi bombings
 LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh police has charged six people, including four Bangladesh nationals who are absconding, for alleged involvement in the twin bombings at Varanasi this March in which about 20 people were killed. The chargesheets were filed before Varanasi chief judicial magistrate P.N. Srivastava on Wednesday. "The accused have been charged for murder, attempt to murder as well as under the anti-explosives law," said a home department spokesperson. The twin blasts on March 7 - one at the Varanasi railway station and the other at the popular Sankat Mochan temple - had injured about 100 people in the temple town that draws huge crowds of Hindu devotees as well as a large number of foreign tourists. Of the six key accused, only Wali Ullah, an imam at a local mosque, is in custody. One person was gunned down by police and there is no trace of the four Bangladeshi nationals who might have While the court has yet to give a date for commencing trial, police has submitted a list of 45 witnesses for the station blast. There is another list of 18 witnesses for the blast at the Sankat Mochan temple. Posted by: Fred 2006-07-21 |
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