Hyd blasts reaction to Kasab, Afzal execution: Shinde

February 25, 2013 07:58

Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde has said the twin blasts in Hyderabad could be a "reaction" to the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and Mumbai attack convict Ajmal Kasab.

Shinde said the government was apprehending some sort of reaction from terror groups following execution of the lone surviving Pakistani gunman in the 2008 Mumbai attack and Afzal and it had been issuing alerts in this regard.

"We were expecting that after the two executions, some reaction had to come," Shinde said, referring to the execution of Kasab and Afzal.

"We had been giving alerts throughout the country," he told reporters. Kasab was hanged in a Pune jail in November last year while Afzal was hanged in Tihar jail early this month.

Shinde said the culprits involved in the Hyderabad blast last Thursday which killed 16 persons and left over 100 injured would be booked soon.

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