Official arrested in connection with Mumbai attacks

JAMMU: Police today questioned a state government employee, who was taken into custody along with his wife in the state's Doda district, for his possible links with Mumbai terror attacks.

Showkat, who is working as junior assistant in the municipal committee in Doda town, was picked up by police along with his wife from the town on Saturday after he was found to have made several calls to Mumbai during and after the attack in financial capital, police sources said here today.

His wife was let off after preliminary questioning. So far, police are yet established his links with Mumbai terror attacks but the phone calls he made were being verified, the sources said adding he was being subjected to sustained questioning.

Showkat along with his wife was picked up after security agencies intercepted his alleged conversation with one suspected Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) militant identified as G Mamnoo asking him to watch television and see what was happening in Mumbai, they said.

He also received a call asking for information about the welfare Abdul Majid, the brother of his wife, living in Mumbai.

Majid was working in Mumbai for last few years, the sources said adding that no team had come from Mumbai to take custody of Showkat as of yet.