Two Arrested in Mumbai Investigation

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Two Arrested in Mumbai Investigation
December 06, 2008
Associated Press

CALCUTTA, India - Police arrested two Indian men accused of illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the gunmen in the Mumbai attacks, police said Saturday - the first known arrests since the bloody siege ended.

It was not immediately clear whether the two had prior knowledge of the attacks, which killed 171 people. If they did, the arrests could represent evidence of homegrown ties to the attacks and be a blow to Indian officials who have blamed the massacre entirely on Pakistani extremists.

One of the men, Tauseef Rahman, allegedly bought SIM cards by providing fake documents, including identification cards of dead people, senior police official Rajeev Kumar said Saturday in the eastern city of Calcutta.

Rahman, of West Bengal state, later sold them to Mukhtar Ahmed, Kumar said. Both men were arrested Friday and charged with fraud and criminal conspiracy.

The SIM cards were later used by the gunmen.


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