A seventh person, 28-year-old Yasin Bhatkal alias Imran has emerged as the kingpin of the module and efforts have been intensified to nab him, police said.
A pan-India terror module has been busted with the arrest of six suspected Indian Mujahideen operatives including a Pakistani by the Delhi Police which claimed to have got vital leads in terror cases like German Bakery blast and shoot out at Delhi's Jama Masjid.
A seventh person, 28-year-old Yasin Bhatkal alias Imran has emerged as the kingpin of the module and efforts have been intensified to nab him, police said.
The module was tracked down with the help of Mohammed Qateel Siddqui who was arrested from Anand Vihar bus terminus and led the police to Mohammed Adil, a Pakistani national, who was arrested from Madhubani in Bihar.
The extensive questioning of the two led them to an engineering student Abdur Rehman, a 19-year-old boy from Bihar, and was studying in Chennai.
Along with Rehman, police teams, which had since been fanned out to various parts of the country, also arrested Mohammed Irshad, a 52 year-old man from Chennai and Gayur Ahmed Jamali from Madhubani.
"All the members of the Indian Mujahideen terror modules were subjected to intensive interrogation. Their interrogation revealed that this module is involved in Pune German Bakery blast, the Bangalore Chinnaswami stadium blast and Jama Masjid shoot out and blast," a police statement said.
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram told reporters "...six suspected terrorists were apprehended in last six days. Probe is still underway and we think that these persons are involved in German bakery blast, (2010), Chinnaswamy stadium blast (2010) and the Jama Masjid shoot out on (2010). One of them is a Pakistani."
Delhi Police said Yasin Bhatkal was in touch with Abdur Rehman only four months back.
The 28-year-old Yasin hails from the coastal Karnataka town of Bhatkal and was out from the country for nearly two years prior to 2007.
On the run since October 2008, the Bhatkal brothers-Yasin and Riaz- are believed to have travelled through different parts of Karnataka and gone to Pune, which was frequently used as a base, and then dispersed, police said.
Two AK-47 rifles along with 50 cartridges, one 9mm pistol along with 14 live cartridges, 1.4 Kgs of black explosive material, 3.2 kgs of white explosive material, 350 gms granular off white explosive material, 5 detonators and fake Indian currency notes of the face value of Rs2 lakh along with other incriminating material were recovered from the six arrested, the press release said.
"The arrests came following a coordinated action with central agencies and police forces in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Bihar," it said.
Seventeen people were killed in the German Bakery blast and over 40 people have been arrested in this case.
However, this is the first arrest in the Jama Masjid terror strike case.
Fifteen people were injured in the blast outside Bangalore's Chinnaswamy Stadium during an IPL match on April 17, 2010.
Two Taiwanese tourists were injured in the firing at Jama Masjid on September 19, 2010 ahead of Commonwealth Games here while no one was injured in the explosion in a car the same day.
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