This is reportedly the first such disclosure by the investigating agency on the source of the explosive material used in the blasts.
MUMBAI: Six militants from Pakistan had smuggled RDX into India which was used in the July 11 serial train blasts, Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) claimed on Thursday.
This was disclosed in the remand application filed before a MCOCA court to seek custody of the accused and is the first such disclosure by the investigating agency on the source of the explosive material used in the blasts.
Six Pakistani militants had crossed the Bangladesh border to infiltrate into India with the help of accused Majid Mohammed Shafi and they smuggled RDX which was used in the blasts, ATS told the court.
The identity of Pakistani militants was being verified and necessary action was being taken, it said in the remand application.
ATS said accused Majid Shafi had disclosed during interrogation that he had links with militants from Pakistan and had helped them in crossing Bangladesh border several times in the past two to three years.
ATS also said Junaid was the leader of the organised crime syndicate and had links with Pakistani militants.
ATS said in remand application that the links of accused Shaikh Mohammed Ali with Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI had come to light as he had undergone training in a military camp there.
However, ATS Chief K P Raghuvanshi said, "I am not a competent authority to say if the ISI was involved in the conspiracy or not".
"My role is to probe the matter and produce evidence before the court," he said to a query about the involvement of the Pakistani intelligence agency at a press conference.
Raghuvanshi said a more stringent law other from the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) would have helped the investigators as a "sustained interrogation" of the accused was very essential in such cases.
Asked if help from Interpol would be sought to nab absconding accused, he said all legal provisions would be invoked to seek the custody of Rizwan Daware and Rahil based in Saudi Arabia and London respectively who were suspected to be involved in the conspiracy.
He also exuded confidence in the "corroborative evidence" which the ATS had apart from the confessions of the accused.
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