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Vadodara, Aug 19 (UNI) City police have sealed a two-room flat of the Ahmedabad serial bomb blast accused Imran Ibrahim Sheikh in the communally sensitive Bawamanpura locality that was allegedly used for providing shelter to SIMI activists and assembling of bombs prior to the July 26 terror attack.
The flat, located in the third floor of the four-storeyed Akmal Complex, was reportedly visited by another blast mastermind Abdul Subhan alias Taufique four days ahead of the blasts in Ahmedabad.
According to police sources, Taufique, who went underground after successfully executing the plan, stayed in the flat for a couple of days to help assemble the bombs with other senior SIMI activists involved in the crime.
The flat, now being guarded by Jawans of the Gujarat State Reserve Police, would be opened when a team of Ahmedabad Crime Branch, investigating the blast case, would arrive here with Forensic experts later this evening, sources said.
Twentytwo-year-old Sheikh was picked up by the crime branch sleuths from his Taiwada residence in the city early this month after it was revealed during investigation that he had not only sheltered the SIMI activists, but also played a key role in the entire conspiracy.
Meanwhile, city police have arrested one Mohammad Umar Abdul Gani Qureshi, owner of Masoom Apartment in the Panigate area of the city, for allegedly giving one of his flats to arrested SIMI leader Sajid Mansoori on rent, way back in 2005.
Querishi was booked under section 188 of the IPC for not giving details about his tenant to the police, which had been made mandatory for every landlord in the city by an order of the police commissioner.
The former Gujarat zonal head of the banned Muslim organisation, Mansoori, who was evading arrest since the police raid on SIMI's Surat conference in 2001, was nabbed from Bharuch fifteen days after the Ahmedabad blasts. Considered as the chief coordinator of the entire SIMI operations in Ahmedabad and Surat, Mansoori had made Vadodara his base camp for four long years before shifting to Bharuch in April this year, sources said.
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