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IAF officer held for church blasts: PTI

An Indian Air Force officer has been arrested by Karnataka detectives from Gurgaon, in connection with the recent bomb blasts targeting churches in Karnataka and was found to be passing on sensitive information on the location of various vital installations and defence establishments to Pakistan.

Fifty-year-old Syed Hasan Ur Zama, a junior warrant officer and member of the Deendar Anjuman Channabasaveshwara Siddique, a little-known sect blamed for the recent blasts targeting churches, was taken into custody by sleuths of the Corps of Detectives (CoD) on August 8.

Karnataka Director General of Police C Dinakar and DGP (CoD) V V Bhaskar told a news conference in Bangalore that Zama, hailing from Nuzvid in Vijayawada district of Andhra Pradesh, was in police custody.

The CoD, probing the bomb attacks at Wadi in Gulbarga district, Hubli and Bangalore in June and July, said, ''Zama, serving in Delhi, has admitted to collecting and forwarding sensitive information about the location of various vital installations, defence establishments and railway bridges,among others, and communicating them to contacts in Pakistan.''

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