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Youth detained in Delhi bomb blast case

     New Delhi: A youth has been detained in Ghaziabad on the outskirts of the capital, Delhi, as he resembled the Delhi serial bomb blasts accused whose sketch was released by police on Wednesday. Police sources here said the youth was picked up in Vaishali area and was being questioned by police in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Delhi Police has released the sketch of a youth, aged around 21, who was alleged to have planted a bomb in a public transport bus in Delhi's Govindpuri area. The portrait was prepared on the basis of the description given by the passengers and conductor of the bus. The explosive was detected in time by a passenger and it was thrown out by the driver and conductor of the bus averting a major tragedy.