Indian police have arrested a suspected militant with alleged links to Hafiz Saeed, who is blamed for plotting the Mumbai attacks, a minister said on Friday.
Muhammad Omar Madni was picked up by police in New Delhi on Thursday, Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram told reporters. He said the suspect was an aide to Saeed, head of the Jamaatud Dawa and a founder of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba group that New Delhi blames for the attacks on Mumbai last year. "The man arrested does have links with Hafiz Saeed," Chidambaram said, adding the operation to arrest him was the result of "good intelligence and good investigative work". A diary, a Nepali driving licence, an identity card, Rs 8,000 in fake Nepalese currency and $8,000 were found in Madni's possession. Meanwhile, Dawa spokesman Yahya Mujahid said the group did not have any links with Madni, a private TV channel reported. |