Court remands Dr Tanvir to custody till Aug 4

Mumbai, July 24: A local court today remanded suspected Laskhar-e-Toiba activist Dr Tanvir Ahmed Mohammed Ansari (33) to police custody till August 4, for his alleged involvement in the July 11 serial train blasts here.

He was produced, amid tight security, before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate A M Garde at Mazgaon court, who remanded him to police custody till August 4.

Ansari has been booked under sections 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder), 326 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons), 147 (rioting) and 149 (unlawful assembly) of Indian Penal Code (IPC), and relevant provisions Indian Explosive Act.

He is alleged to have provided the executors of the blasts with local train timings, location for planting explosives and providing them shelter in Mumbai.

He was one of the active member of banned SIMI (Students' Islamic Movement of India). Ansari had also visited Pakistan and had allegedly made a few calls to Nepal from his mobile phone, prior to the blasts, according to ATS.

The former RMO (registered medical officer) of Sabusiddique hospital in South Central Mumbai, was picked up by the crime branch of Mumbai police three days ago.

The ATS (anti-terrorist squad), probing the serial train bomb blasts case, had taken his custody yesterday to probe his alleged involvement in the blasts, in which about 200 people were killed and more than 700 injured.

Earlier, ATS had arrested three persons--Mumtaz Ahmed Chaudhary from Ghansoli in Navi Mumbai, Mohammed Kalam Ansari and Mohammed Khalil Sheikh from Bihar--on July 20.

UNI