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India-Pakistan |
'Bad boys' are back |
2006-07-23 |
![]() Two of Nayak's "encounter-specialist" colleagues, Pradeep Sharma and Vijay Salaskar, who shot into fame in the late 1990s with him but are still a part of the force, are also playing an active role in helping investigators into Terror Tuesday. Nayak, if Uttar Pradesh Police are to be believed, stayed at a hotel near Shahnajaf Imambara in Hazratganj and gathered information about those rounded up after the Varanasi blasts of March 7 this year. Two of these suspects belong to the Huji, Bangladesh-based terror offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), and the other two allegedly owe allegiance to the Jaish-e--Mohammad. The four are presently lodged in Lucknow district jail. Nayak also met a few senior police and STF officials, two of whom vouched for his visit. But Maharashtra director-general of police P S Pasricha said he had no information about Nayak's Lucknow trip. "I know nothing about this but will ask about," he said. |
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