The Mumbai Police has detained Karimulla Khan Osan Khan, an accused in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case who was on the run for the last 15 years. Khan, an accomplice of gangster Dawood Ibrahim, was arrested from suburban Nalasopara area.

Khan was allegedly involved in landing of RDX on the Raigad coast & its transport to Mumbai prior to the blasts which killed 273 people & injured over 700. He has been absconding since then, but returned to India in 2006. Police said that he lived & worked in Dawood’s house in Karachi for some time.

Khan will be handed over to CBI & produced before a special TADA court tomorrow. The court had convicted hundred accused in the bomb blasts case last year.