Former Gujarat home minister, Haren Pandya's, suspected assassin, Asghar Ali, who was
arrested with three others near Hyderabad on Thursday, has a long criminal record.
He was involved in a blast at a city hotel, apart from a number of cases of theft.
Ali, 29, a native of Nalgonda, has 13 offences registered against him in Nalgonda district and Hyderabad. He also has several warrants pending against him since 1991,
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according to Hyderabad Police Commissioner Mahender Reddy.
He jumped bail two years ago and slipped away to Pakistan, where he received training in subversive activities, a senior police official said.
Ali also engineered the escape of an offender, Mirza Ali Baig, from a city court in 1996. Baig, who was involved in the killing of BJP corporator, Nandraj Goud, was subsequently shot dead by security forces in Kashmir.
