Unearthing an important link in the twin cinema hall blasts case, the Delhi police arrested a relative of the head of militant outfit Babbar Khalsa International and an NRI who was planning to whisk him out of the country.
Dilbagh Singh alias Bagga (37), brother of Germany-based BKI leader Satnam Singh, had allegedly supplied four consignments of arms, ammunition and explosives to Jagtar Singh Hawara, the prime accused in the blasts case who was arrested earlier.
Satnam Singh is the son-in-law of Wadhawa Singh, the chief of BKI presently believed to be in Pakistan.
Dilbagh and Surender Singh Kanda (50), an NRI settled in Kenyan capital Nairobi, were arrested near the booking counter of Old Delhi railway station on Thursday evening, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Ranjit Narayan
told reporters on Friday.
Surender had been contacted by Satnam through one Ranbir Singh based in Spain. He had been promised 60,000 Deutsche Marks (approx Rs 14 lakh) and a return ticket from Kenya to India for taking Dilbagh out of India.
"After the arrests of Hawara and other BKI operatives, the militants seem to have panicked and become desperate. That is why they are trying to take their people out of the country," Narayan said.
Nearly 30 BKI militants have so far been arrested, mostly in Delhi and and Punjab, since the May 22 blasts in Liberty
and Satyam Cinema halls in New Delhi in which one person was killed and over 50 others injured. These include the four men who triggered the blasts.