A SENSATIONAL ESCAPE FROM MUMBAI COURT

In a sensational incident Afzal Usmani, an alledged bomb plotter has reportedly escaped after he was brought by cops to a Mumbai court for a hearing of his case. The police said he "disappeared" outside the court. A massive manhunt has been launched. Usmani was being brought from Taloja Jail in Navi Mumbai to the sessions Court in south Mumbai along with 22 others for framing of charges today. He is accused of transporting and planting explosives in the 2008 blasts in Ahmedabad and an attempted bombing in Surat the next day. Twenty blasts rocked Ahmedabad in Gujarat on July 26, 2008, within a few hours. More than 50 people died and over 200 were injured. The next day, 22 bombs were found planted across the Surat, 270 km from Ahmedabad. His brother, Faiz Usmani, had died after questioning by police in connection with the Mumbai blasts of 2011. The family alleged that he had been tortured, but a postmortem report ruled that he died of a heart attack.