Ahmedabad: The alleged prime conspirator in the 2002 terror attack on the Akshardham temple in Gandhinagar, Abdul Rashid Ajmeri, was arrested at the city airport after he arrived from Riyadh late on Friday night, a senior official said.

"Ajmeri is one of the prime conspirators behind the Akshardham temple terror attack. He was arrested from the airport after he landed here late last (Friday) night. We had inputs that he was travelling to Ahmedabad from Riyadh to meet his brother," Deepan Bhadran, DCP, Ahmedabad Crime Branch, said.

Bhadran said the Ahmedabad resident, alleged to have planned the attack and helped the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba carry it out, "had absconded to Riyadh before the terror act was committed".

Two militants, allegedly linked to the Lashkar, had attacked the temple on September 24, 2002, killing 32 people and injuring over 80. The attackers were killed by NSG commandos.

The Supreme Court had in May 2014 acquitted all the six convicts arrested earlier in the case, including three who were handed death. PTI