New Delhi: Six persons accused of the 7/11 blasts have been sent to police custody till October 26.
They were produced befoer the Mazegaon sessions court.
In September, after two months of intensive probe into the 7/11 serial blasts in Mumbai's local trains, Central security agencies and Mumbai Police had detained six people who were allegedly involved in planning and executing the attacks on July 11.
They are allegedly cadres of Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT) who are suspected to have executed the plan with help from local cadres of the banned SIMI, informed sources said.
Leads were picked up by investigators from various states and the hand of the LeT was quite evident, said senior officials attached with the probe.
Nearly 200 people were killed and over 700 injured when bombs went off in commuter trains during the evening peak hour on July 11.
Sources said the blasts were a part of the LeT's policy of spreading terror in the hinterland after the 2002 sectarian violence in Gujarat.
They said the role of top terrorists Rahil, Fayaz and Zaibuddin Ansari was becoming clear and that they are suspected to be the persons who motivated others to carry out the attacks.
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The identity of those detained by Central security agencies and Mumbai police is not being revealed before all checks and verification of their antecedents have been completed.
Though the hunt was continuing for Fayaz, whose name had also figured in the seizure of arms at Aurangabad and the blast outside Karnavati Express in Gujarat in February that injured 25 people, it is believed that he might have fled the country to Bangaldesh.
Fayaz has been a vital link between the LeT and SIMI, the sources said.
Mohammed Rahil is another person being probed by the intelligence agencies and Mumbai police as his name cropped up during the interrogation of two LeT militants arrested in Delhi in May.
Rahil is believed to have recruited youths from Maharashtra and was instrumental in sending some of them to Pakistan via Iran.
Zaibuddin Ansari, whose links with the Students Islamic Movement of India have been under the scanner, is believed to be the main person who provided local links for LeT terrorists to execute the train blasts. He is believed to be currently in Pakistan.
Sources said Rahil and Ansari had met the Pakistani terrorist Junaid in Kathmandu. About Junaid, there is no other information available except that he heads the LeT's operations in Nepal.
For the first time, the ATS revealed the LeT's involvement in the blasts in an application filed in a local court on Monday to seek custody of two suspects, Faisal Shaikh and his brother Muzammil, who were arrested on July 27.
The application said, "The blasts are a part of an international conspiracy involving terrorist outfits across the border. The conspiracy was hatched in Pakistan by Azam Chima, the alleged mastermind behind the blasts."
The ATS said in the application that Faisal had revealed during scientific tests the involvement of international groups.
Muzammil used a mobile phone to contact LeT operatives across the border. Muzammil and Faisal had also undergone training in Pakistan and were in touch with Azam Chima, who is based at Bahwalpur in Pakistan, through one Raheel Atta-ur-Rehman Sheikh who operates from Dubai, the application said.
(With inputs from PTI)
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