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Cinema blasts: India arrests top Sikh rebel
2005-06-09
Police in the Indian capital on Wednesday arrested three men, including a top Sikh militant and the main accused in the bombing of two cinemas last month that killed one person and wounded dozens. The men are members of Sikh militant group Babbar Khalsa, which wants an independent Sikh state, a police spokesman said. The arrests in a Delhi suburb took the number of people held over the May 22 blasts to eight.

"Jagtar Singh Hawara is the head of Babbar Khalsa and there was a price of 500,000 rupees ($11,500) for his arrest. He is wanted for the assassination of Beant Singh among other cases," the spokesman said. Another of those arrested on Wednesday was the mastermind behind the home-made bomb blasts that tore through the cinemas in Delhi, the spokesman said. "We suspect they were in Delhi to collect some money and flee the country. Some guns and a huge amount of explosives were recovered from them," he added.
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