TIA NEWS /
Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested a suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative from the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai. He has been identified as Zainbul Abedin. He was arrested after he landed in Mumbai on Tuesday morning.
Abedin has been booked under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA). He was produced before a local court which has sent him for 10-day ATS custody.
According to an ATS officer, they had received information that Abedin would be coming to India to visit his native Bhatkal, and that he would be going there via Mumbai. Seeing the opportunity, ATS squad laid a trap and arrested him. He informed that Abedin was involved in the 2011 serial blasts in Mumbai.
He was also suspected to have been supplying firearms and other arsenal to IM operatives across the country. He was wanted by the anti terror agencies in several states and the Maharashtra ATS had also issued a Red Corner Notice in his name.
