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Ahmedabad serial blasts mastermind among ten arrested
bomb blasts that killed 55 persons, Gujarat police Saturday arrested its mastermind Mufti Abu Bashir and nine others andsaid that the network of S.I.M.I. was behind the explosions.
"We believe that the netwrok of S.I.M.I. was behind the blasts.... Indian Mujahideen, which claimed the responsibilityof the blasts, is connected to S.I.M.I.," Gujarat D.G.P. P.C.
Pande told reporters here Saturday.
Bashir was arrested in Lucknow Saturday, he said, adding that he will be brought to Ahmedabad in a day or two andinterrogated for more information.
Pande said there are indictions that he might be linkedwith Hyderabad, Jaipur and Banglore blasts as well.
"Today is the big day for Gujarat police which hasbeen able to crack the Ahmedabad blasts case," said Pande.
Most of the nine people arrested in the blasts case areactive workers of the banned organisation S.I.M.I.
The arrests of Bashir and nine suspects was done with the help of Central Intelligence agencies and police of otherstates, Pande said.
"The planning of the blasts was done in Ahmedabad by the S.I.M.I.," Joint Commissioner of Police of city crime branch Ashish Bhatia, who is heading the inquiry of the blastssaid.
A meeting was held at the house of Yunus Mansuri inBapunagar area of the city to plan the blasts, Bhatia said.
They had purchased five pre-paid mobile cards for internal communications and they were traced after checkingthe records.
It was found that the calls which were coming to thesefive cards had stopped after July 26, the day of the blasts.
Bhatia also said police have indentified the shops fromwhere the cycles used in the blasts were purchased.
Explosives for the blasts came from Madhya Pradesh,Bhatia said.
"Those arrested were present during a training camp organised by S.I.M.I. in Halol in Vadodara distrct in January2008.
They were given training on how to survive in adverse conditions and were trained how to tackle policeinterrogation," Bhatia said.
"They were also taught how to drive motorcycle and fakean accident during the camp," Bhatia said.
Bhatia said a computer engineer working with a private company, who is also suspected to have been inolved in theserial blasts is yet to be arrested.
Bhatia said, "Indian Mujahideen is the organisation formed by S.I.M.I. activists. They have dropped the first and the last letter and picked up the middle letters to formIndian Mujahideen".
Those arrested include Jahid Sheikh, Yunus Mansuri, Shamsudin Sheikh, Arif Kadri, Gyasuddin, Imran, UsmanAgarbattiwala, Iqbal Sheikh and Sajid Mansuri.
"We believe that the netwrok of S.I.M.I. was behind the blasts.... Indian Mujahideen, which claimed the responsibilityof the blasts, is connected to S.I.M.I.," Gujarat D.G.P. P.C.
Pande told reporters here Saturday.
Bashir was arrested in Lucknow Saturday, he said, adding that he will be brought to Ahmedabad in a day or two andinterrogated for more information.
Pande said there are indictions that he might be linkedwith Hyderabad, Jaipur and Banglore blasts as well.
"Today is the big day for Gujarat police which hasbeen able to crack the Ahmedabad blasts case," said Pande.
Most of the nine people arrested in the blasts case areactive workers of the banned organisation S.I.M.I.
The arrests of Bashir and nine suspects was done with the help of Central Intelligence agencies and police of otherstates, Pande said.
"The planning of the blasts was done in Ahmedabad by the S.I.M.I.," Joint Commissioner of Police of city crime branch Ashish Bhatia, who is heading the inquiry of the blastssaid.
A meeting was held at the house of Yunus Mansuri inBapunagar area of the city to plan the blasts, Bhatia said.
They had purchased five pre-paid mobile cards for internal communications and they were traced after checkingthe records.
It was found that the calls which were coming to thesefive cards had stopped after July 26, the day of the blasts.
Bhatia also said police have indentified the shops fromwhere the cycles used in the blasts were purchased.
Explosives for the blasts came from Madhya Pradesh,Bhatia said.
"Those arrested were present during a training camp organised by S.I.M.I. in Halol in Vadodara distrct in January2008.
They were given training on how to survive in adverse conditions and were trained how to tackle policeinterrogation," Bhatia said.
"They were also taught how to drive motorcycle and fakean accident during the camp," Bhatia said.
Bhatia said a computer engineer working with a private company, who is also suspected to have been inolved in theserial blasts is yet to be arrested.
Bhatia said, "Indian Mujahideen is the organisation formed by S.I.M.I. activists. They have dropped the first and the last letter and picked up the middle letters to formIndian Mujahideen".
Those arrested include Jahid Sheikh, Yunus Mansuri, Shamsudin Sheikh, Arif Kadri, Gyasuddin, Imran, UsmanAgarbattiwala, Iqbal Sheikh and Sajid Mansuri.
