Mumbai: Two more people - Sohail Sheikh and Zameel Ahmed - have been detained in the Mumbai blasts case.
According to the police, both these men were trained in Pakistan and are SIMI activists.
In the past one week, there has been a spate of arrests linked to the 7/11 blasts.
On Monday, the Mumbai Crime Branch had arrested an alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba member, Tanvir Ansari.
After the latest round of arrests, ATS chief KP Raguvanshi is not ruling out a Pakistan connection. The police now say that with every arrest, the terrorists' link to Pakistan is becoming more and more clear.
On Saturday, Mumbai Police's Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) had detained four more suspects, including two working professionals, in connection with the serial blasts.
The four suspects were picked up from Bihar and the Navi Mumbai area. One of them is a doctor, and at least two others are said to be well-educated professionals, according to ATS officials.
Though the people who actually planned the blasts and planted the bombs on July 11 in Mumbai trains are still at large, the police say that the local network is being steadily unearthed.
The police are rounding up locals who had helped the terrorists in Mumbai by giving them shelter in the city.
Sources told CNN-IBN that one of the suspects who was arrested on Friday, Mumtaz Maqbool Chaudhary, had harboured the main operatives, while other suspects - Kamal Ahmad Ansari and Khalil Aziz Sheikh - were part of the logistical backup.
Meanwhile, BJP leader L K Advani on Tuesday demanded revival of POTA to deal with terrorism effectively and alleged that the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre had been "communalising terrorism and playing votebank politics".
"If terrorism is supported for minorities, it is not good for the country," he said, while moving an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha over the July 11 Mumbai blasts.
Advani said there was no need for any favouritism to minorities in a country where all religions were respected.
Making a strong case for the revival of POTA, which was repealed by the UPA Government, he said, "A legislation like POTA will create terror in the minds of terrorists."
In this context, he pointed out that the police officers were handicapped in the absence of POTA, which is anti-terrorism. "If you want to contain terrorism, don't communalise war on terrorism," he exhorted.
Referring to July 11 Mumbai blasts, in which nearly 200 people were killed and over 700 injured, he said the tragedy had left the people of this country brittled and impatient, though there were similar cases of terrorist violence.
(With inputs from UNI)
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