Mumbai: Two men accused in the July 11 train bombings in Mumbai were on Tuesday re-arrested for their alleged role in the September 8 blasts at Malegaon, with the Mumbai Police linking the two terror strikes.
The Mumbai Police's Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) said Sheikh Mohammad Ali and Asif Khan Basir Khan alias Junaid, suspected to be prime conspirators of the July 11 attacks, are also closely linked with the bombings in the communally sensitive textile city of Malegaon in north Maharashtra.
"Mohammad and Junaid had supplied RDX for the Malegaon blasts and had prior knowledge of the blasts," ATS chief and Special Inspector General of Police K P Raghuvanshi said.
Mohammad is accused of packing RDX in pressure cookers at his residence in Govandi in northeastern Mumbai, while Junaid, arrested from a hideout in Belgam in neighbouring Karnataka, was a key conspirator in the train blast case for having allegedly provided logistic support to the bomb planters.
"Junaid, who is believed to have received arms training at a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) camp in Northern Pakistani town of Bahawalpur, had also participated in a conspiracy meeting to plan the Malegaon bombings," the ATS chief said.
The duo were produced before a Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court Tuesday afternoon, which remanded them to police custody till Nov 24, Raghuvanshi said.
Seven bombs ripped through first-class compartments of Mumbai's commuter trains during the evening rush hour on July 11, killing nearly 200 people and injuring 800.
The ATS has so far arrested 13 accused in the case while the MCOCA court has let off three for lack of evidence.
With the duo's arrest, the number of arrests in the Malegaon case has risen to seven.
In Malegaon, 35 people were killed and 300 injured when a series of bombs kept on bicycles went off minutes after Friday afternoon prayers outside a local mosque and an adjacent burial ground.
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