Suspected LeT operative Faiyaz Kagzi had trained MirzaHimayat Baig, who was arrested for his alleged role in 2010 Pune German bakeryblast, at a camp in Colombo, theMaharashtra ATS said.
In 2008, Kagzi had trained LeT operative Baig in organisingrecruits and bomb-making techniques in a camp in the Sri Lankan capital forthree weeks, an ATS official told PTI.
"In March 2008, Baig had been to Colomboafter being called by Kagzi, an alleged former SIMI activist wanted in 2006 Aurangabadarms haul case, for training in making bombs.
Along with Kagzi, one more person was present during thetraining," the official said.
"The three had chosen Colomboas they thought it was a safe place and no security agency would have any doubtabout their bomb-making activities. Moreover, Sri Lanka had visa-on-arrival facility then.After the training, they also decided as to through which mode of communicationthey would remain in contact in future," the ATS official said.
Kagzi had given Baig Rs 2.5 lakh to get a new identity andset up a base of radicals in Maharashtra, the sourceadded.
Baig, who was on the run as he is wanted in many cases inPune, kept on changing his locations from Beed to Bhatkal in Karnataka to Udgirin Latur district of Maharashtra, where the conspiracy for the German bakeryblast was hatched, the official said.
Baig was arrested from Pune in September, 2010.
Earlier today, the National Investigation Agency (NIA)lodged an FIR against arrested terror suspect Abu Jundal and Kagzi, who isabsconding, for hatching the 26/11 attacks conspiracy and aiding thePakistan-trained terrorists.
In the charge sheet filed in a Pune court in the Germanbakery blast case, the ATS had named six other accused, suspected to beco-plotters and currently absconding, namely Mohsin Choudhary, Yasin Bhatkal,Riyaz Bhatkal, Iqbal Bhatkal, Faiyaz Kagzi and Zabihuddin Ansari alias AbuJundal.
Baig was arrested from Pune in September, 2010, nearly sevenmonths after a powerful blast ripped through the famous eatery killing 17people and injuring 56.
The ATS had in May 2006 seized 43 kg of RDX, 16 AK-47 assault rifles,3,200 bullets and 50 hand grenades on the Nasik-Aurangabad highway and arrested21 terror suspects.