The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Hyderabad police that is investigating the twin blasts of August 25 here has reportedly arrested two suspects and seized explosive substances.

The two men’s names figure in the First Information Report  (FIR) filed by the police against 15 persons on Saturday charging them with plotting and carrying out the twin blasts in Lumbini Park and Gokul Chat Bhandar.

The police said it had recovered RDX from the arrested men  Imran Khan and Kaleem. Imran, an executive with a corporate bank here, was arrested from his house in Bowenpalli in Secunderabad. Police suspect that Imran Khan had been providing shelter to one Sameer alias Nayeem and Shoaib Jagirdar for the past one year, both of whom were arrested in Maharashtra in connection with a fake passport case. They are also said to have been involved in plotting the Mecca Masjid terror attack.

According to information gathered by the Hyderabad police, more than 10 kg RDX was smuggled into the city from Bangladesh in February 2007 to trigger blasts in this state capital. The plot, including the three bomb explosions in Hyderabad in the last three months, were reported to be masterminded by the Hyderabadi Shahed alias Bilal, who is said to be the commander of Harkat-ul-Jamat Islami, a terrorist organisation based in Bangladesh. RDX was used in the Mecca Masjid blast.

Meanwhile, the Hyderabad police have intensified searches to recover the RDX stored in the city meant to trigger blasts during the forthcoming festival season beginning with Ganesh Chaturthi, followed by Ramzan, Dasara and Deepavali.

Both the arrested will undergo narco-analysis tests to elicit more information on their role in the blasts.
A team of the SIT is in Bangalore following up vital information they got when they questioned a Bangladeshi woman who is an illegal resident here. The team that searched Shafeera’s house found that her brother Rizwan bore a resemblance to the portrait of the August 25 bomber.

They seized seized a ration card, driving license and PAN card in his name. He had given different addresses to procure these raising suspicion. Police believe her brother Rizvan was holed up in Bangalore but managed to escape.