RDX link to medical student
- Vellore woman in net for Mecca Masjid blasts
G.S. RADHAKRISHNA
Hyderabad, Sept. 1: A second-year lady medical student of Vellores Christian Medical College was last night taken into police custody on the suspicion of ferrying RDX from Bangladesh to Hyderabad.
Policemen on the Lumbini Park blast trail stumbled upon Shahi Rafzani, a 27-year-old Bangladeshi, on a tip-off that her brother resembled the suspect whose sketch was released on Thursday.
Shahi is suspected to be a transporter of the RDX that was used to set off the tiffin-box blasts in Mecca Masjid in May. She was picked up from her brother Rizwan Gazis Hyderabad home where she had apparently come on a vacation.
A routine check following an alert about her brother Rizwan Gazi revealed that she returned from Bangladesh very recently. She could be one of the carriers of RDX to Hyderabad, a police officer said. About 10kg RDX was moved to Hyderabad from Bangladesh via Maldives in February.
Rizwan, who could be fair, stocky and about five-foot-eight going by the sketch, was not home. He works in a public sector company but has been missing for two days, the police said.
He is, however, not the first person reported to resemble the sketch. Some others were rounded up earlier on similar grounds but were released.
The police said they were astonished to find that Shahis family, staying in Hyderabad on extended visas, had acquired ration cards, PAN cards and driving licences.