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This Article is From Jul 04, 2010

Pune blast suspect Abdul Samad released from jail

Mumbai: Abdul Samad Bhatkal, arrested in a 2009 illegal arms seizure case, was released from the Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai on Sunday night, officials said.

On June 15, a court had granted bail to Abdul Samad, arrested in connection with an 2009 arms seizure case and alleged to be involved in the Pune blast case, saying there was no evidence against him.

23-year-old Samad, a resident of Bhatkal district in northern Karnataka, had filed a bail application in the court of Additional Sessions Judge S L Pathan claiming that he was not an accused in the 2009 arms case for which he had been arrested.
     
Samad was picked up by ATS Maharashtra on May 25 at Mangalore airport after he returned from Dubai and immediately the Union Home Ministry was informed about it. He was charged with supplying of arms to three persons arrested from South Mumbai in August 2009.

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