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India's most-wanted terror suspect arrested for bombings

RAXAUL, India, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Officials in India said they arrested Yasin Bhatkal, the founder of the Islamic militant group Indian Mujahedin, for his alleged involvement in bombings.

Police arrested the country's most-wanted terror suspect Wednesday near India's border with Nepal, the Hindustan Times reported.

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"He is under Bihar police custody at present," said Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Thursday.

Bhatkal will be handed over the the National Investigation Agency for an inquiry into his role in bomb blasts in New Delhi and the mobbing of Best Bakery in Vadodara, in which 14 people died.

Bhatkal was also allegedly involved in the Pune bomb blasts in 2012 and the German Bakery bomb blasts in 2010, the newspaper said.

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