Mumbai: A software programmer, currently employed in a Bangalore-based software MNC, is expected to be arrested for his alleged links with the Lashkar-e-Toiba, police sources said on Wednesday.
The software programmer, a higher secondary certificate examination drop out, who is among nearly a dozen persons detained in connection with Mumbai serial bomb blasts, has been interrogated by a joint team of Mumbai Crime Branch and the Anti Terrorist Squad since one week, sources said.
The programmer is suspected to have undergone training at LeT camps in Pakistan and is part of the LeT module headed by Tanvir Ansari, the unani medicine practitioner arrested late last week, a senior ATS official said.
The programmer reportedly taught members of his own module and other module members on how to bypass use of telephones and instead use internet chat sites for secret communication, sources said.
Sources said the programmer has also visited some countries in the West on official assignments and it was now being checked if he established contacts with any LeT operatives there.
"We are still interrogating him and names of some more persons associated with the group are likely to come up. Once we come across some concrete information, we will place him under arrest," a senior police official said.
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