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PUNE: The Pune police on Saturday confirmed that the anti-terrorist Squad (ATS), Mumbai had recently detained four alleged members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India from the city over their suspected involvement in various cases.

The suspects have been identified as Ayaz Yusuf Khan of Pune Cantonment, Irfan Khan and Illiyas Khan, both from Kondhwa and Nadeem.

Senior police officials say Ayaz was detained by the ATS, Pune in connection with a fake currency racket registered in crime register number 16/2008 with the Mumbai police. The ATS, Pune has also made an entry of Ayaz's detention at the Cantonment police station. After an initial interrogation, Ayaz was handed over to the ATS, Mumbai on August 11 for further investigations.

Ayaz had earlier attempted to commit suicide by consuming pesticide in the city after he was interrogated and released by the Mumbai police. Ayaz's family later alleged that the Mumbai police was planning to implicate him in the Ahmedabad serial blasts case.

As regards the three other suspects, the police officials claimed that the city police knew very little about their involvement as they had been picked up by the ATS, Mumbai. Additional commissioner of police (Crime) Rajendra Singh claimed ignorance about the details of the trio's detention due to lack of co-ordination between the crime branch, Pune and ATS, Mumbai.
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