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Mumbai blasts: two more held

Staff Reporter

MUMBAI: The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the Mumbai police has arrested two more persons in connection with the July 11 blasts, according to ATS chief K.P. Raghuvanshi.

Mohammed Faizal Ata-Ur Rehman Shaikh, 30, and Muzammil Ata-Ur Rehman Shaikh, 22, were arrested on Thursday night here. Muzammil is said to have been brought from Bangalore. They were produced before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate A. M. Garde, who remanded them to police custody till August 9.

Denies reports

Mr. Raghuvanshi denied reports in the media suggesting that Mohammad Faizal was the western commander of the terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba and has links with the seizures in Aurangabad as well as the blasts. He said no official in the ATS or the Crime Branch had confirmed reports in the media regarding the accused and their role in the conspiracy.

In the remand application, the police submitted that the two "have clandestinely travelled to Pakistan through Iran which they have admitted. These persons were received on the international border by members of a banned terrorist organisation and taken to a terrorist training camp in Pakistan."

The police submitted that they underwent training in the handling and use of sophisticated firearms and the making and use of explosive devices similar to those used in the train blasts.

"Preliminary interrogation of the two revealed that they are members of a large network of like-minded persons who are learnt to have assembled and planted the explosive devices," the police told the court.

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