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Man Who Planned To Kill Advani Held As Plot To Murder Modi Goes Viral


Date:- 25 Apr 2018


The Tamil Nadu Police on Monday night arrested Mohammed Rafiq, a 50-year- old convict in the 1998 Coimbatore bomb blast and now out of jail, on charges of plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The audio clip of the telephonic conversation between Rafiq and a car dealer named Prakash in which Rafiq is purportedly heard saying he is planning to kill Modi went viral. Following which, Rafiq was arrested.

“The conversation was mainly related to finances about vehicles. But suddenly the blast convict was heard saying ‘we have decided to eliminate (Prime Minister) Modi, as we were the ones who had planted bombs when (former Deputy Prime Minister LK) Advani visited the city in 1998,” police said. The city was rocked by a series of bomb blasts in February 1998 in which 58 people were killed and property worth crores destroyed.

Rafiq, a member of the banned Al Ummah, was in jail for about ten years and has been out since 2007.

Judicial Magistrate VII R Pandy ordered the remand of Rafiq and he was sent to Central Prison, Coimbatore.

Courtesy: The Pioneer, Wednesday, 25 April 2018 | PNS | CHENNAI