Army officer Lt Col Prasad Purohit, arrested for his alleged involvement in the Malegaon blast, was on Wednesday remanded in police custody till November 29 by a court in Nashik in connection with a case of procuring an arms license using fake documents.

With fresh leads emerging out of Malegaon blast case, the CBI may soon reopen investigations into the 2006 Nanded blast, which is being seen as a main indicator of saffron group emerging as a major terror network.

A doctor in New Delhi on Saturday rubbished reports of his involvement in the Malegaon bombing or the Abhinav Bharat group that supposedly masterminded the terror attack.

With investigators suggesting involvement of some Hindu outfits in cross-border Samjhauta Express train blast, the issue is all set to figure in the Indo-Pak Foreign Ministerial and Home Secretary-level talks next week.

BJP on Friday asserted it did not want to interfere with investigations into the Malegaon blast but said Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad should not "harass" saints and army personnel.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called up BJP leader LK Advani in regard to his allegations about torture of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, a key accused in the Malegaon blast case.

The Anti-Terrorism Squad of the Maharshtra police has charged all the 10 accused in the Malegaon blast under a stringent law that will allow the authorities to keep them in detention for six months before having to file a charge sheet.

The People's Democratic Party on Sunday alleged self-styled religious guru Dayanand Pandey, arrested in connection with Malegaon blasts, stayed as a guest of then Jammu and Kashmir Governor Lt Gen (Retd) S K Sinha and demanded a probe into it.

Coming out in support of Malegaon accused Pragya Singh Thakur and Lt Col Shrikant Purohit, BJP President Rajnath Singh on Sunday said his party will protect the interest of Hindu saints and back those accused in the Malegaon blast.

The claim by Maharashtra's Anti-Terrorism Squad about presence of RDX in the 2007 Samjhauta train blast has flummoxed investigators who probed the attack as the forensic analysis had shown no signs of the deadly explosive being used in the terror strike that left 68 people dead.

Ajay Misarm, special counsel for Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad probing the Malegaon blast case, on Saturday alleged he had received a threatening call.

With the BJP and Sangh Parivar alleging that Hindu religious leaders were being targeted in the Malegaon blast probe, Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil on Saturday said the case should not be linked to any particular religion.

Serving army officer Lt Col PS Purohit procured 60 kg of RDX from Jammu and Kashmir in the year 2006, a part of which is suspected to have been used in Samjautha Express train explosion and Malegaon blasts, Maharashtra police told a court in Nashik on Saturday.

A Haryana Railway police team has reached Mumbai to interrogate Malegaon blast case suspects Lt Col Srikant Prasad Purohit and Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur in connection with the Samjhauta Express blast.

Six more persons, including a Bhutanese national, have been apprehended by police in connection with the October 30 serial blasts in Assam which claimed 84 lives.

Mumbai Police will be probing if Lt Col Srikant Prasad Purohit and others arrested in connection with the Malegaon blasts had any role in the explosions in other parts of the country this year even as the hunt for two absconding accused intensified on Thursday.

Extending its support to Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, arrested in connection with the Malegaon blasts case, Uma Bharati's Bharatiya Janshakti party (BJS) on Thursday offered her a ticket to contest the upcoming assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh.

The killing of four men from Kerala by security forces in far away Jammu and Kashmir has led to worried community leaders here introspecting on the hows and whys of terrorism striking root in their state.

A software engineer arrested for his links with terror group Indian Mujahideen has filed an application before a court seeking pardon in the case in return for aiding the investigators, officials said on Sunday.

The fresh batch of three militants were killed in Sogam area of Lolab valley in North Kashmir.

Two top militants of Pakistan-backed Al-Badr militant outfit were on Sunday arrested from Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, a police spokesman said.

A massive crackdown has seriously dented the widespread network of the shadowy Indian Mujahideen (IM), blamed for the terror attacks in Indian cities, but investigators say a large number of jehadis are still at large with the potential to strike at will.