24 years on, RSS office blast suspect held

Ahmed, a native of Vaniyambadi in Vellore district, had allegedly procured the explosive material needed for assembling the bomb and provided shelter to the other accused. He was picked up from the outskirts of Chennai, a CBI spokesperson from Delhi said.

It may be noted that the TADA court in Poonamalee had convicted 11 persons and awarded life term to three of them in the case in 2007 after a 12-year trial.

The explosion occurred on August 8, 1993, at the Chetpet office of the RSS. It was triggered using RDX which brought down the multi-storeyed building. The CBI registered a case on the request of the State Government and took over the investigation of the case from the TN police which was earlier registered at Chetpet Police Station and later transferred to CB-CID.

The case was handed over to the CBI in the same year and it filed a charge sheet on June 8, 1994, against 18 under various provisions of the IPC, Explosive Substances Act and Terrorist and Terrorist and Destructive Activities Act (TADA).