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Bombay police arrest 14 militants for attack on Indian cricket HQ
AFP
21 January 1999
BOMBAY, Jan 21 (AFP) - Police in the western Indian city of Bombay
arrested 14 Hindu militants on Thursday over the ransacking of the
Indian cricket board's headquarters.
``We arrested 14 people this morning,'' said Bombay joint police
commissioner Parvinder Singh Pasricha.
Pasricha said all were members of the Hindu right-wing Shiv Sena
party, which had denied any involvement in Monday's attack on the
board's offices.
According to Pasricha, the attack was led by Vinod Khopkar, a top Shiv
Sena leader in Bombay.
Further arrests were expected soon, he added.
More than 50 party activists stormed the Board of Control for Cricket
in India (BCCI) headquarters on Monday, breaking trophies and smashing
up filing cabinets, cupboards and ceiling fans.
BCCI staff were manhandled by the militants, who escaped before police
arrived.
The arrests came just before Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray called
off his party's campaign to disrupt Pakistan's cricket tour of
India. The team were due to arrive Thursday.
The Shiv Sena had opposed the tour because of Pakistan's support for
Moslem separatists in Kashmir.
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