The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday got three-day transit remand of two SIMI operatives, including the alleged mastermind of blasts at Bodh Gaya Temple complex in Bihar, arrested here in connection with the SIMI network exposure case.
Additional Superintendent of Police (City) Pankaj Chandra informed that Ummer Siddhiqui and Azharuddin Samshuddin Qureshi have been handed over to NIA on transit remand and the duo will have to be produced in Patna Court by December 5.
They were produced in the Court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Sangeeta Naveen Tiwari as the Chief Judicial Magistrate Alok Kumar was on leave.
Siddhiqui, who runs a coaching in Raja Talab area, is one of the 14 alleged SIMI operatives arrested last month from the state capital Raipur.
According to the police, Siddhiqui was the mastermind of blasts in Bodh Gaya temple complex in Bihar. He had also planned to carry out attack on Narendra Modi during his rallies in Kanpur, Delhi and Ambikapur.
Police claimed that Abdul Wahid Khan (54) an auto driver of Pandri was allegedly preparing suicide bombers for carrying out their evil design.
The 12 others arrested in the SIMI network exposure case are Sheikh Habib Ulla (34), Roshan Sheikh (35), Hayat Khan (45), Abdul Aziz (45), Sheikh Ajijullah (38), Moinuddin Kureshi (37), Md Dawood (38), Md Aslam (28) and Sheikh Subhan (48), Mohammed Saeed Abdul Jaleel (50), Azharuddin Samshuddin Qureshi (19)and Aamer Bin Wahid (19) who is the son of Ummer Siddiqui.