The report also mentions that the new organisation is in the process of expanding membership.

A hardcore SIMI activist Mohammad Talah from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, who was arrested on Sunday night by an ATS team at Nagpur railway station for his alleged involvement in Delhi bomb blasts, was remanded to police custody till January 3.

The police told the media that terrorist groups might have recruited as many as 300 men from Kerala. This upset the government. Both the chief minister and the acting home minister described the reports as exaggerated.

SIMI leader Safdar Nagori and four others accused in the serial blasts of July 26, were on Wednesday sent to police custody till October 23 by a metropolitan court in Ahmedabad.

With the death of four suspected Keralites in recent encounters in border areas in Jammu and Kashmir, police and Intelligence agencies have stepped up efforts to ascertain the links of extremist groups like SIMI and Indian Mujahideen with Kerala.