At least ten were injured in the Bhopal-Ujjain train blast.
The Uttar Pradesh ATS has arrested two more suspects on Friday including a former IAF employee who they believe is the "mastermind" of a terror module that included Saifullah, a suspected terrorist killed in an Lucknow encounter yesterday.
GM Khan, the terror suspect arrested today from Lucknow over the terror Operation. UP ADG (Law & Order) says he has been an airman for a long time.
Mohd Ghaus Khan was picked up from Kanpur by the Anti-Terrorist Squad, and revealed vital information during questioning, said Additional Director General of UP Police Daljit Chaudhary. He said another suspect, identified only as Azhar, was also arrested by the ATS.
Khan "is a technical man and a hardcore member of the module," Chaudhary said, adding he was the "main accused and mastermind" of the module. He said Azhar, the second suspect, was the main supplier of arms to the module. He did not say where he was arrested from, or in what capacity Khan worked in the air force.
Uttar Pradesh police shot dead suspected terrorist Mohammad Saifullah on Wednesday and six suspects have been arrested by cops in Madhya Pradesh and UP on terror charges. Saifullah was suspected to be linked with the blast on the Bhopal-Ujjain train in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday.
In a statement in the Lok Sabha, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday spoke about the encounter and its connection to the Ujjain train blast.
He said that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) will also probe the suspected terror cases, including the Lucknow encounter in which an alleged terrorist linked to a train blast was killed.
Giving details of various cases registered in the two states following the blast which injured 10 persons, he said the state police arrested three suspects in Hoshangabad in Madhya Pradesh, following which the UP cops acted in various parts of the state following information provided by the accused and nabbed three persons. "The above sequence of events presents an excellent example of coordination amongst state police and central agencies. Due to the prompt action taken by the police of both the state, a possible threat to national security was successfully averted. Further investigations will be handed over to the NIA," he said.
The Home Minister also informed the House that eight pistols, 630 live cartridges, Rs 1.5 lakh, three mobiles phone, four sim cards, two wireless sets and some foreign currency were recovered from the place where Saifullah lived.
"The above sequence of events presents an excellent example of coordination amongst state police and central agencies. Due to the prompt action taken by the police of both the state, a possible threat to national security was successfully averted," Singh said.
Members of the House thumped desks when the minister lauded Saifullah's father Mohammad Sartaj for his refusal to accept his son's body saying "if he could not be loyal to the country, how can he be ours". "The government is proud of him and I am sure Parliament too is," Singh said.
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
 "Former Indian Air Force (IAF) employee")
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
)
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
)
)
)
)
)
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}