Irfan Khan (Ayodhya bombing suspect)
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Irfan Khan is a Unani doctor who was captured in July 2005 on suspicion that he was involved in the July 5th, 2005 Ram Janmabhoomi attack in Ayodhya
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Khan was described, by The Tribune
as the ringleader of the attack.
The Tribune said Khan plead innocence, and that while he knew two of the attackers, it was only because they were patients of his.
2005 Ram Janmabhoomi attack in Ayodhya
On 5 July 2005, five Islamist terrorists attacked the makeshift Ram temple at the site of destroyed Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, India. All five were shot dead in the ensuing gunfight with the Central Reserve Police Force , while one civilian died in the grenade attack that the terrorists launched in...
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Khan was described, by The Tribune
The Tribune
The Tribune is an Indian English-language daily newspaper published from Chandigarh, New Delhi, Jalandhar, Dehradun and Bathinda. It was founded on 2 February 1881, in Lahore , by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is run by a trust comprising five eminent persons as...
as the ringleader of the attack.
The Tribune said Khan plead innocence, and that while he knew two of the attackers, it was only because they were patients of his.