The National Investigation Agency has placed advertisements in city-based Gujarati dailies announcing an award of Rs 10 lakh each for information about Ramji Kalsangara and Sandeep Dange, absconders in the Samjhauta Express Blast and other terror cases.

According to NIA officials, the two are from south Gujarat and have taken refuge in the region. Both Kalsangara and Dange are aides of Swami Aseemanand, who has been arrested in terror cases and is also from south Gujarat.

Released by the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity (DAVP), the ads assure protection of identity to the informers.

During the second last week in May, an NIA team from New Delhi comprising two inspectors and an officer of the rank of Superintendent of Police had come to Surat. The team met senior officers in Surat police, including Surat Range Inspector General A K Singh, and some local residents during their three-day stay in the city.

Singh said the NIA team did not specify the details of the visit, but only sought logistical support. "The officers sought logistic support from us and we provided them the same. They need not to inform us for what purpose they come here and whom they are searching for. We have given them all the support they had demanded and assured them of our help."

Sources said the NIA team visited Navsari, Valsad, and Dangs and some interior villages in search of the two suspects, meeting the local police officers and some residents.

The names of the two suspects came out during the interrogation of Swami Aseemanand from the Sabridham temple in Dangs, who had a clout in south Gujarat.

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