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Pinto Deepak ByExpress News ServiceHYDERABAD: Former army doctor Ashfaq Alam living in Hyderabad was picked up by the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday, in connection with the investigation of a blast that took place at a masjid at Kushinagar district in UP on Monday. Ashfaq’s grandfather Haji Kutubuddin is the alleged mastermind of the blast that occurred at Bairagipatti village under the police limits of Turkpatti in the district. Though there were no casualties reported in the incident, the blast had damaged a big portion of the masjid’s structure. But when one of the senior officials asked him to show his identity proof, he became agitated and and left the place. Haji has been accused of planting the explosives inside the masjid and Ashfaq with transporting the materials..