Tuesday, January 17 2006 09:53 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Mumbai: Close on the heels of the arrest of four persons, including an Imam, for their alleged links with Lashkar-e-Toiba, the Anti Terrorist Squad of Mumbai police is zeroing in on a fifth person from Mumbai in the case, the ATS said here, yesterday (Jan 16, 2006).

Asking further police custody remand of the three accused arrested for LeT links on January 8, ATS officials told a local court here that they were hopeful of the arrest of fifth person soon. Police arrested three Kashmiri persons on January 8, who are suspected to be members of a LeT module, sent to Mumbai to undertake subversive activities. ATS seized detonators, electronic circuits and details of monitory transactions from them.

The three persons later led ATS to the arrest of Haj House mosque `imam', Maulana Ghulam Yahya Khan Allah Baksh, who had allegedly harboured the three Kashmiri men at Haj House some time back. ATS sources said that information being worked out after interrogating the Kashmiri youth has suggested that the module had contacts with Pakistan-based LeT brain, Syed Salahuddin, and the module must have been waiting for further instructions from him.

Although the Jammu and Kashmir police has given a clean chit to the Kashmiri persons, namely, Arshad Ahmad Badroo (27), Muhammed Ramzan (50) and Khurshid Ahmad (29), ATS sources said that some clinching evidence has come out as regards their LeT involvement.