Mumbai: The special MCOCA court here yesterday allowed the state Anti Terrorism Squad to arrest Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal in Pune's German Bakery blast case.

     
"The Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court has allowed the ATS to take Bhatkal to Pune; he will be procedurally arrested there and will be produced in the court there today," said Vinod More, his lawyer.
    
Meanwhile, the ATS arrested Bhatkal's aide Asadullah Akhtar in connection with the 2012 Pune serial blasts. He was remanded in ATS custody till March 27.
     
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Yasin Bhatkal (30), who is wanted in over 40 terror cases and Akhtar from the Indo-Nepal border in August last year.