Malegaon blasts: ATS arrests religious leader in UP

NEW DELHI: Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Wednesday arrested religious leader Dayanand Pande from Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh to question him in the Malegaon blasts case.

A three teams of Maharashtra anti-terrorism squad had reached Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday night in search of a "high profile religious leader" whose name cropped up during the investigation of Malegaon September 29 bomb blasts.

While several names of suspected religious leaders were floated by the media, the ATS was reluctant to speak about it earlier.