Kolkata: A person with injuries and suspected to be connected with the Delhi High Court blast has been arrested after he failed to give details about himself at a hospital in West Bengal's Howrah district, police said.
The man, Syed Afjal Taher, went to the Bagnan rural hospital and sought medication on Monday, Superintendent of Police Rabindranath Banerjee said.
The man with injuries in his left palm, face and leg and head wrapped in a blood soaked bandage, approached a doctor at the hospital and asked for pain killers, police said.
He was admitted but kept under police surveillance at the hospital after he refused to give his name and address. He was arrested today and sent to judicial custody, they said.
Asked how the man was connected with the blasts, Banerjee said, "There are some discrepancies in his statement and it is not clear why he went to Bagnan. He has not been able to give answers properly."
According to police, the man was from Banke district of Uttar Pradesh and though his mother tongue is Urdu he can speak fluent Hindi, English and Nepali.
The Special Task Force of Kolkata Police also interrogated Taher.
The man, Syed Afjal Taher, went to the Bagnan rural hospital and sought medication on Monday, Superintendent of Police Rabindranath Banerjee said.
The man with injuries in his left palm, face and leg and head wrapped in a blood soaked bandage, approached a doctor at the hospital and asked for pain killers, police said.
Asked how the man was connected with the blasts, Banerjee said, "There are some discrepancies in his statement and it is not clear why he went to Bagnan. He has not been able to give answers properly."
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The Special Task Force of Kolkata Police also interrogated Taher.
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