Journalist held in relation to Mumbai train blasts

Indian police today arrested a journalist over his alleged ties to an outlawed Islamic group suspected of taking part in the Mumbai train bombings.

However, investigator K.P. Raghuvanshi cautioned that the reporter, Danish Sheikh, who works for the Urdu Times, an Urdu language newspaper, is not suspected of playing any direct role in the July 11 bombings that hit the city’s crowded commuter rail network, killing at least 207 people.