Mohammed Arif Shaikh one of the five arrested by the Mumbai Police, is reported to be an “expert” in setting up electric circuits

Mohammed Arif Shaikh (28), one of the five arrested by the Mumbai Police, is reported to be an “expert” in setting up electric circuits, responsible for setting up the timers in the bombs that caused the recent blasts across the country.
The police suspect he could be the person who assembled and set the digital timers in Surat too. While Arif, who was reportedly trained in a “hostile country”, is reported to be an expert at electric circuits, he is said to be honing his skills in “digital timers”. Among the recent blasts for which the Indian Mujahideen has claimed credit, it was only in Surat bombs and Bangalore where digital timers, in the form of Thailand-manufactured Motorola microchips, were used. All the nine bombs in Bangalore exploded. The Mumbai crime branch believes that the five alleged Indian Mujahideen operatives, all natives of Azamgarh, had been assisting in assembling and executing major Terror blasts across the country since 2005. Officials said Arif’s interrogation could help them understand the kind of timers that were used in the train serial blasts in Mumbai on July 11, 2006, which claimed 187 lives.