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.

They 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.
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.

CENTRE ALERTS STATES

New Delhi, dhns: Fresh with the wounds inflicted by terrorists in Hyderabad, the Centre on Monday issued an advisory to all states to step up security and intelligence surveillance during the coming festival season. The Union Home Ministry asked states to scale up the level of surveillance and vigil “specially at religious places and congregations ahead of Janmashtami and Ganesh Chaturthi”. The Ministry has been particularly anxious about “terrorist designs” in the southern India which has of late turned as a soft target for their strikes.