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AHMADABAD, India — Police have arrested the alleged mastermind of serial bombings in western India last month that killed 58 people.
An official says they have linked him to a banned Islamic group.
Police also arrested eight other men who were described as members of the Students' Islamic Movement of India.
The group was banned in 2001 and has been blamed for a wave of bomb attacks across India in the last three years.
Police arrested the alleged leader of the bomb plot, Mufti Abu Bashir, in the northern Indian city of Lucknow.
Police declined to describe what evidence they had against Mr. Bashir and the other men.
