MUMBAI: Mumbai Police claimed to have arrested five members of the terrorist group Indian Mujahideen in connection with the serial blasts in Ahmedabad and Delhi. The five are learnt to have provided logistics support to those who carried out the blasts, the police said.The cops have also hinted at the Indian Mujahideen being controlled from Pakistan.
The men, identified as Mohammad Sadiq Sheikh, Afzal Usmani, Mohammed Sakib, Mohammed Arif and Shaikh Ansar were nabbed from a place near the Maharashtra-Karnataka border. All of them belong to Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, said the cops.
They are believed to have provided the suspected terrorists with logistics support, including acquiring the vehicles that were laden with explosives. The police claim to have arrested the founder member of the terrorist outfit. A large quantity of arms has also been seized from the suspects. The next target of the terrorists was Mumbai, said the city police commissioner. The police also claimed that all arrested were involved in blasts since 2005 including Mumbai train blasts in 2006.