Fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s aide Abdul Majeed Kutti was on Saturday, arrested by a Gujarat ATS team from Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, reported ANI.

Kutti was involved in a case related to explosives sent by Ibrahim at behest of a Pakistani agency to carry out bomb blasts in Gujarat and Maharashtra on Republic Day in 1997. 

The ATS squad, according to a release, acted on a tip-off which led to the capture of Kutty.

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Reportedly having changed his name to Mohammad Kamal, Kutti has reportedly ‘accepted’ that he was associated with and wanted for the 1996 bomb blast case.

“The ATS had launched a probe against Abdul Majid Kutti. ATS DSP
KK Patel received a tip-off that Kutti, a wanted terrorist, has changed his
name to Mohammad Kamal, and was living in Jamshedpur in Jharkhand. A team of
ATS rushed to Jharkhand, arrested him and brought him here. When interrogated,
he accepted being wanted in the 1996 case,” news agency PTI quoted the ATS release as
informing.

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In December, 1996 the Gujarat Police had discovered four kilograms of RDX, ten detonators, 130 pistols, 113 magazines and 750 cartridges in Gujarat’s Mehsana, arresting three people for the act. The consignment was reportedly carried into India from Pakistan through
the Barmer border in Rajasthan.

The police had registered an FIR against the trio identified as Mohammad
Fazal Mohammad Usman from Ajmer, Anwar Kureshi from Mumbai, and Shakeel Ibrahim
Kureshi from Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly  on
December 23, 1996 under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Later on, a court in Mehsana issued an arrest warrant against Kutti,
Dawood Ibrahim and Abu Salem among others, as their participation in the blasts
came into light.

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The release further stated that after a long time outside the country, Kutti returned to India in May, 2019 and started living in Jamshedpur under the aforementioned identity.

Abu Salem, another convict in the case, is currently serving a life sentence.