NEW DELHI, Nov 13: Emergency services on Sunday rushed to Delhi’s police headquarters following a bomb alert which came amid reports of a breakthrough in the probe into blasts which killed 62 shoppers in the Indian capital.
Explosives experts scoured the headquarters as fire trucks raced to the cordoned-off building after an unidentified person in a telephone call claimed a bomb had been planted there, a police official told AFP.
Police announced a news conference for later Sunday amid press and television reports that anti-terrorism agents had arrested a company executive from held Kashmir in connection with the Oct 29 triple blasts in New Delhi.
Tariq Ahmed Dar was arrested Friday on a highway after he left his home in Srinagar.—AFP