This story is from August 24, 2006

Two Delhi blast suspects brought to city

A city crime branch team brought back two suspected members of the banned SIMI to Mumbai on Wednesday.
Two Delhi blast suspects brought to city
MUMBAI: A city crime branch team brought back two suspected members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) to Mumbai on Wednesday.
The two, Feroz Abdul Latif Ghaswala alias Abdullah and Mohammed Ali alias Chipa were in a New Delhi jail and the city police got their custody on a transit remand.
Assistant inspector Avinash Dharmadhikari said the duo were produced before the court and remanded to custody till August 28.
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"We are questioning them and they are expected to throw more light on SIMI's network in the state," he said. The two accused have been booked under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.
Police sources said the duo could provide information about the several Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed modules in India. Ghaswala, a resident of Mahim, and Chipa, a resident of Ahmedabad, were arrested in May this year by the special cell of the Delhi police. Ghaswala's name cropped up during the probe into the July 11 train blasts.
One of his acquaintances, Najeeb Bakali, was arrested by the crime branch last week for being associated with SIMI. The crime branch said Bakali was aware of Ghaswala's activities, including his trips abroad for training.

So far, the crime branch has interrogated six persons who went for terror training to Pakistan either via Iran or Dubai. Ghaswala is also said to be an associate of Rahil Shaikh, a wanted accused in the Aurangabad arms haul case.
From Chipa's hideout, the police recovered two AK-56 rifles, six magazines and 179 live cartridges, 10 hand grenades, five kg of PETN explosive, three litres of nitric acid, one litre of glycerine, three kg of urea, a computer and a satellite phone. The computer contained information on bomb configuration circuits.
Ghaswala, allegedly went to Bangladesh in 2004 for training in handling of explosives under the supervision of Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami (HUJI) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan, presently lodged in a Bangladesh jail.
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