4 software professionals among 20 held for blasts

MESSAGE TO DELHI: Techie terrorists send e-mails minutes before Ahmedabad and Delhi blasts.

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Mumbai: The Mumbai Police claim to have busted an important module of the terrorist group Indian Mujahideen which was allegedly involved in blasts across India since 2005.

Mumbai Police Commissioner Hasan Gafoor on Monday announced that with the arrest of a group of suspected Indian Mujahideen members from Karnataka for allegedly placing bombs in Ahmedabad and Surat, the number of people held in connection with the recent terror attacks has risen to 20.

The terror suspects, who were allegedly found with bombs, were reportedly planning blasts during Navratri in Mumbai.

Gafoor said that those arrested include four "top-notch software professionals who had sent the three terror e-mails prior to the blasts".

Gafoor also alleged that 10 of those arrested were among those who placed explosives in Ahmedabad and Surat. They had travelled from Karnataka to Pune and then to Surat and Ahmedabad, he said. The serial blasts in Ahmedabad July 26 killed 57 people and injured over 100.

The arrested men include Mohammed Mansoor Asghar Peerbhoy, 31, who works as a principal software engineer in a multinational corporation; Mobin Kadir Shaikh, 24, senior technical advisor in an IT firm and Asif Bashiruddin Shaikh, 22, a mechanical engineer.

They were told to send the e-mails minutes before the blasts in Ahmedabad and Delhi, which they did, Gafoor said.

(With inputs from IANS and PTI)