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Brain-mapping tests done on two Mumbai blasts suspects

Staff Reporter

They are likely to undergo narco analysis tests today

BANGALORE: Two suspects in the recent Mumbai blasts underwent brain-mapping tests in the Forensic Science Laboratory here on Monday.

According to Mumbai policemen who are here, Kamal Ahmed Vakil Ansari and Tanveer Ansari, an Unani doctor, have been brought to the FSL.

Director of the Laboratory B.M. Mohan said that depending on the results of the tests, a decision would be taken on conducting narco-analysis tests on Tuesday.

On August 29 that the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Mumbai police produced the two and other suspects before the Mazagaon Metropolitan Magistrate of Mumbai and obtained permission to conduct polygraph, brain-mapping and narco-analysis tests.

The other persons produced include Mumtaz Ahmed Maqbool Ahmed Chaudhary, Mohammed Faizal Ata-Ur Rehman Shaikh, his Bangalore-based brother Muzammil Ata-Ur Rehman Shaikh, Shaikh Sohail Mehmood of Pune, Jameer Ahmed Latif Ur Rehman Shaikh of Mumbai, Khalid Aziz Raunak Aziz Shaikh and Eteshan Siddiqui. Most of them were arrested in the last week of July.

By subjecting the suspects to the three tests, the ATS hopes to get more details about the planning and execution of the blasts that killed 200 people and injured over 600.

The ATS has reportedly taken the services of the FSL for three days.

The two suspects were brought by a team of the ATS squad led by S.L. Patil, an officer of the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police, on Monday afternoon. After staying in an undisclosed location the squad brought the two persons to the FSL around 1 p.m.

The brain-mapping test began around 3 p.m. The narco-analysis will be conducted either at the Victoria or Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital.

If the two tests are over by Tuesday, the ATS squad is likely to bring two more suspects on Wednesday.

The Mumbai police have found that Kamal Ansari, Khalid Aziz and Mumtaz Ahmed belonged to an LeT module with contacts in Nepal and Bangladesh. Jameer Ahmed and Shaikh Sohail were members of the module headed by Tanveer Ansari. The suspects were alleged to be part of a large network of "like-minded people, who assembled and planted explosive devices on the trains."

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