Information About Incident 60468-120875-306578 in Kanpur Dehat India

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An accused in the Ghatkopar blast (a bomb explosion in a bus at Ghatkopar in Mumbai in Maharashtra on December 2, 2002 which killed two persons and injured over 50 others) was arrested from Morna in Noida in Uttar Pradesh on November 22 by a team of Uttar Pradesh (UP) Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), Tamil Nadu Special Investigation Team (SIT) and Noida Police when he was about to leave for Dubai, Times of India reported.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Ghatkopar Mumbai Maharashtra Noida Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh Noida Dubai, Ghatkopar Mumbai Maharashtra Noida Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh Noida Dubai
• Matched District: Kanpur Dehat
• Actgroup: kill, arrest
• Actor: Maharashtra which, by a team of Uttar Pradesh ( UP ) Anti-Terrorism Squad ( ATS ) , Tamil Nadu Special Investigation Team ( SIT ) and Noida Police
• Subject: two persons, An accused in the Ghatkopar blast ( a bomb explosion in a bus at Ghatkopar in Mumbai in Maharashtra , which killed two persons and injured over 50 others )

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An accused in the Ghatkopar blast (a bomb explosion in a bus at Ghatkopar in Mumbai in Maharashtra on December 2, 2002 which killed two persons and injured over 50 others) was arrested from Morna in Noida in Uttar Pradesh on November 22 by a team of Uttar Pradesh (UP) Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), Tamil Nadu Special Investigation Team (SIT) and Noida Police when he was about to leave for Dubai, Times of India reported. Western UP ATS chief Rajeev Narayan Misra said that the Police got a tip off that a terrorist, planning to go to Saudi Arabia via Nepal, would enter Noida. Acting on the information, a team was deployed in and around the area. The arrestee, identified as Taufiq alias Abdullah, a resident of Adirampattinam in District Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu, on questioning said that he was earlier associated with Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Muslim Defence Force (MDF) and some other terrorist outfits especially in Saudi Arabia. Taufiq was suspected to have hatched the conspiracy of Ghatkopar blast from jail, police said.

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