Mumbai: Two persons arrested by Maharashtra
police on charges of suspected terror links, were on Thursday
remanded to judicial custody till April 13.
Abdul Latif Rashid and Riyaz Ali Imtiaz were in police
custody for questioning since their arrest on March 13 for
allegedly planning to carry out terror attacks in the
metropolis.
According to the anti-terror squad officials, the duo
was in touch with a person in Pakistan addressed as 'Uncle',
who is suspected to be Abdul Bashir Khan, an absconding
accused in the 1993 serial bomb blasts and a close aide of
prime conspirator of the blasts Tiger Memon.
The duo was directed by the 'uncle' to recruit youths
and arrange for them to be sent to Pakistan for training and
to carry out terror attacks in India, police said.
The ATS had produced both the accused before the Mazgaon
metropolitan magistrate, who remanded them to judicial
custody.
The duo had allegedly conducted recee of three targets
- headquarters of public sector petroleum company ONGC,
Thakkar Mall in suburban Mumbai and Mangaldas Market in south
Mumbai.
PTI
First Published: Thursday, April 01, 2010, 23:03