Mumbai Police claimed to have arrested three people, two of them engineers, in connection with sending threatening e-mails for Indian Mujahideen (IM). The cops claimed to have busted the media cell of the terror group suspected to be behind a string of bomb blasts since 2005. The members of the IM’s media cell, arrested from Pune, were identified as Mohammed Mansoor Asghar Peerbhoy (31), Mobin Kader Shaikh (24) and Asif Bashruddin Shaikh (22).

Peerbhoy was working in an MNC as a principal software engineer, Mubin was employed in an IT firm as a senior technical advisor and Asif was a mechanical engineer by education, police said.

Threatening e-mails were sent to media organisations prior to the July 26 Ahmedabad and September 13 Delhi serial blasts from unsecured wireless Internet connections in Navi Mumbai and Mumbai respectively. Another email was sent from a wireless internet connection at a college in Central Mumbai.