One person has been arrested by the Gujarat police from Mumbai in connection with the landing of RDX used in the 1993 Mumbai blasts, the police said in Ahmedabad on Tuesday.
The accused, Aamir Bandukwala, was arrested from his residence in Andheri on Monday by a police team from Valsad district on the basis of information derived from key Dawood Ibrahim aide Ijju Sheikh, the police said.
Sheikh was arrested last month and remanded to Gujarat police custody.
Bandukwala's name was revealed when the Gujarat police began probing the case of RDX landing off the coast of Gosabara in Porbandar in 1993, the police said.
Bandukwala has been brought to Valsad for interrogation and will be produced before a local court for police remand.
This is the first arrest made by the Gujarat police, since Ijju was nabbed after a gap of 12 years on April 28 from a hotel in Mumbai.
Even though he has been in Gujarat police custody since then, no major breakthrough, apart from this arrest, has been achieved.
Ijju, a notorious smuggler and key Dawood man, is accused of handling the RDX consignment when it entered the Gujarat coast and transporting it to Mumbai with the help of two other persons accused in the Mumbai blasts case.
