Accused In Godhra Train Attack Held

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AHMEDABAD, INDIA, March 17, 2002: In a major breakthrough in the Godhra case, police arrested the main accused Haji Bilal Ismail Sujela, a municipal councillor of the Congress party, who had been absconding since the incident which claimed 58 lives on February 27, taking the total number of arrests so far to 28. Bilal was arrested by the anti-terrorist squad and Government Railway Police in Godhra. “Haji Bilal is named in the police First Information Report as one of prime accused along with eight others,” Superintendent of Police Raju Bhargav said. The main charge against Bilal is “preventing the fire fighters from coming to control the blaze when the compartment of ill-fated Sabarmati Express was burning.”