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Probe into Mumbai blasts on

Prachi Pinglay

MUMBAI: A month after serial blasts killed 187 people on Mumbai's local trains, the police have still not revealed who was responsible for the attacks or how they were carried out, though eight persons have been arrested.

The first arrests were made on July 21 when the police picked up Kamal Ahmed Mohammed Vakil Ansari and Khalid Aziz Raunak Aziz Shaikh from Madhubani district of Bihar. The third arrest was that of Mumtaz Ahmed Maqbool Ahmed Chaudhary from Navi Mumbai the same day. He was named by those arrested in Bihar.

On July 24, Unit II of the Mumbai police Crime Branch handed over Tanvir Ansari, a Unani doctor, to the Anti-Terrorism Squad. Dr. Ansari, who works in a hospital in central Mumbai, was said to hold an important position in the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba. On July 25, Jameer Ahmed Latif Ur Rehman Shaikh, of Mumbai, and Shaikh Sohail Mehmood, of Pune, were picked up by the Crime Branch and handed over to the ATS for formal arrests.

On July 27, Mohammed Faizal Ata-Ur Rehman Shaikh, 30, and his brother Muzammil Ata-Ur Rehman Shaikh, 22, were arrested.

They were alleged to be part of a large network of "like-minded people, who assembled and planted explosive devices on the trains."

After these, there have been no fresh arrests in the blasts case. All the eight are in police custody and continue to be questioned.

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