05-28-2007, 08:33 AM
<b>Mecca blast arrest was trying to secure fake passport </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Hyderabad, May 27: The man who was arrested from Maharashtra in connection with the Mecca Masjid blast was taken into custody under the Passport Act, according to a Special Investigation Cell (SIC) source.
<span style='color:red'>Sohaib Jagirdar was arrested </span>yesterday from his residence at Jalna in Maharashtra for trying to procure a passport in a fictitious name for "jehadi purpose", the source in SIC, probing the May 18 bomb blast, said today.
During the course of investigation it was revealed that Jagirdar was a close associate of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) cadre<span style='color:red'> Nayeem alias Sameer</span>, the source said.
Sameer, an accused in the 2006 Aurangabad (Maharashtra) arms-haul case, was arrested early this year by the BSF in West Bengal, while allegedly helping two Pakistani mercenaries cross over into India through the Indo-Bangladesh border.
Sameer's custody was taken by the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Mumbai police on April 24 from BSF.
The source said Sameer had visited Hyderabad in February and he and Jagridar stayed in a house here to secure a passport for "jehadi purpose" by furnishing forged documents. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<span style='color:red'>Sohaib Jagirdar was arrested </span>yesterday from his residence at Jalna in Maharashtra for trying to procure a passport in a fictitious name for "jehadi purpose", the source in SIC, probing the May 18 bomb blast, said today.
During the course of investigation it was revealed that Jagirdar was a close associate of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) cadre<span style='color:red'> Nayeem alias Sameer</span>, the source said.
Sameer, an accused in the 2006 Aurangabad (Maharashtra) arms-haul case, was arrested early this year by the BSF in West Bengal, while allegedly helping two Pakistani mercenaries cross over into India through the Indo-Bangladesh border.
Sameer's custody was taken by the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Mumbai police on April 24 from BSF.
The source said Sameer had visited Hyderabad in February and he and Jagridar stayed in a house here to secure a passport for "jehadi purpose" by furnishing forged documents. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->