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Delhi Police has announced a reward of Rs one lakh each for those who help catching 13 absconding Indian Mujahideen terrorists allegedly involved in the serial blasts that rocked the national capital in September.
The reward, which was announced by Delhi Police Commissioner Y S Dadwal last evening, will hold for a period of one year, a senior police officer said today. While police is yet to catch the 13 people allegedly involved in the September 13 blasts, it had arrested five persons and killed two others in an encounter a week later in south Delhi.
Those who are at large are: Amir Raja Khan, the alleged chief of Indian Mujahideen, Ariz Khan (23), Shahzad Ahmad (20), Mohd Sajid (22), Mirza Sadab Baig (25), Mohd Khalid (25), Dr Shahnawaj (28), Hakim (23), Asadullah Akhtar (23), Salman (19), Mohd Khalid (25), Iqbal Batkal, Riyaz Batkal.
Bringing back the horror of the 2005 pre-Diwali serial blasts, five explosions ripped the city on September 13, in a span of 40 minutes, killing 26 people and injuring 133. The Central Park in Connaught Place, Barakhamba Road, two places in Greater Kailash and Gaffar Market in Karol Bagh were the terror targets.
As the capital limped back to normalcy, a gunfight between suspected terrorists and sleuths of Delhi Police's elite Special Cell in Jamia Nagar in south Delhi, a week after the blasts, broke the lull.
Two suspected IM terrorists, including Atif Amin whom police said was the mastermind of the blasts, were killed while Mohan Chand Sharma, Delhi Police's ace-shooter, lost his life in the encounter. | 
