Patna:
Investigations into the Patna blasts that killed six people and injured 83 on Sunday have led to a village near Ranchi, home to four of the alleged bombers who had no previous record of crime.
These men were given Rs 5000 and three bombs each to carry out the blasts targeting Narendra Modi's 'Hunkar rally'.
Two of them, Imtiaz Ansari and Ainul alias Tarique, were arrested on the day of the blast, when a bomb exploded in a toilet at the Patna railway station when they were assembling it. Tarique died last night of splinter injuries in his brain.
Two others, Nauman and Taufique Alam, are missing.
Nauman's mother and sister insist that he is innocent, but fear that after the allegations, he will never come back.
Sources say these young men were roped into the "Ranchi module" of the terror group Indian Mujahideen, set up only about seven months ago.
They were allegedly mentored by Tehseen Akhtar, a top Indian Mujahideen operative said to have conceived the Patna plan. Akhtar is believed to be next only to the group's co-founder Yasin Bhatkal, who was arrested in August.
One of Akhtar's aides, Uzair Ahmed, was arrested on Wednesday. Ahmed allegedly raised money for the operation in the name of religious causes and is believed to have been involved in the 2011 blast at the Delhi High Court, in which 11 people were killed and nearly 80 injured.
The police are also looking for a man named Haider, who chatted online using the codename 'Black Beauty', and worked for Tehseen Akhtar. Sources say he was the 'handler' for the Patna bombers.