Alleged IM operative held in Mumbai

ATS says Zainul Abedin was involved in the Mumbai serial blasts in July 2011.

April 26, 2016 03:52 pm | Updated November 17, 2021 01:54 am IST - New Delhi

A youth injured in the Opera House blast is tended to by members of the public. Three blasts rocked the crowded areas of Mumbai on July 13, 2011, killing 21 persons and injuring 141 others.  File photo: Vivek Bendre

A youth injured in the Opera House blast is tended to by members of the public. Three blasts rocked the crowded areas of Mumbai on July 13, 2011, killing 21 persons and injuring 141 others. File photo: Vivek Bendre

An alleged operative of the Indian Mujahideen was on Tuesday arrested from the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad.

Officials said Zainul Abedin was arrested after he landed in Mumbai on Tuesday morning.

"We had received information that Abedin would be coming to India to visit his native Bhatkal, and that he would be going there via Mumbai. Accordingly, we laid a trap and arrested him," an ATS officer said.

Abedin was involved in the > 2011 serial blasts in Mumbai, and was also suspected to have been supplying firearms and other arsenal to IM operatives across the country, the officer said He was wanted by the anti-terror agencies in several States and the Maharashtra ATS had issued a Red Corner Notice in his name, he added.

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