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Dawood aide arrested in Mumbai
Mumbai, Aug 21: The Mumbai police on Thursday (August 21) arrested Karimulla Khan Osan Khan, an accused in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case who was on the run for the last 15 years, report agencies.
Khan, an accomplice of gangster Dawood Ibrahim, was arrested from suburban Nalasopara area, Joint Commissioner of Police Rakesh Maria said.
Khan was allegedly involved in landing of RDX on the Raigad coast and its transport to Mumbai prior to the blasts which killed 273 people and injured over 700.
He has been absconding since then, but returned to India in 2006. According to police, he lived and worked in Dawood's house in Karachi for some time.
Khan will be handed over to CBI and produced before a special TADA court tomorrow.
The court had convicted hundred accused in the bomb blasts case last year.
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