January 30, 2002

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    One more person involved in the Kolkata American Center shoot out has been arrested from his residence at Tiljala Lane, Kolkata today. Jamalluddin Nazir who was arrested this morning admitted that he had provided shelter and support to the two Pakistanis (earlier killed in the police raid at their hide-out in Hazaribagh on January 27) who were involved in the attack and the conspiracy thereto. At Nazir’s instance, the motor cycles which had been used by the terrorists while attacking the American Center and also the Maruti car in which the terrorists had traveled from Hazaribagh to Kolkata, were recovered and seized. This is a further and significant break-through in the case. Jamalluddin Nazir is being produced in the court at Kolkata to seek his police remand, where after, he would be put through sustained interrogation to ascertain the motive and fuller contours of the conspiracy of attack on the American Center.