07 March,2009 08:10 PM IST | | Imran Gowhar
Police
arrested Sarfaraz Nawaz of Kalasipalyam today and charged him with funding the
July 2008 bomb blasts in Bangalore. Nawaz
spent Rs 3.2 lakh on the terror project, police commissioner Shankar Bidari
told the media today. u00a0"He
spent it on the logistics and buying the material," Bidari said. Nawaz
has been a member of Simi since 1997, and police said he had worked as its
secretary in Delhi. Police
maintained he was caught in Kalasipalyam, in the heart of Bangalore, but MiD
DAY had reported last week that he had been secretly brought in from Muscat by
Indian sleuths. Nawaz
was reportedly close to Naseer Riyaz and Abdul Sattar, who allegedly planned
the blasts. They are now said to be hiding in Bangladesh. Several
low intensity blasts went off in Bangalore on July 25, and one of them killed a
woman. u00a0 u00a0
