Updated on Monday, January 05, 2009, 00:00 IST

Guwahati, Jan 05: In the first arrest in connection with the New Year's Day blasts here, a man who had allegedly supplied explosives to the prime suspect was nabbed and was remanded in seven days of police custody by a court on Monday.

Sanjeeb Talukdar had supplied the explosives to ULFA leader Pranjal Deka who used them for triggering three blasts that claimed 5 lives and injured over 50 others, DIG (Central- Western Range) G P Singh said.

Talukdar was arrested yesterday and produced today before the Kamrup chief judicial magistrate who remanded him in police custody.

"Investigations are heading in the right direction and very soon the others involved in the blasts will be booked," Singh said.

Talukdar told waiting reporters outside the court that he had been acting as a carrier for ULFA for the past six months and had handed over the explosives to Deka at the Adabari bus stand here.

The police had released Deka's photograph as the prime suspect a day after the blasts.

Three serial blasts had rocked the state's main city on January 1 in Birubari, Bhootnath and Bhangagarh areas.

Bureau Report