Abdullah then called in two of his colleagues from Bihar, Asif and Firoz,  by speaking to them over STD PCO, Gupta said.

The ADG said, the SIMI had links with Patna and Ranchi, and now after their links with Raipur has been established, further links with Khandwa0-Mumbai-Jaipur have been traced.

"We have given the inputs to NIA to work on them", Gupta said.

"One input we got 15 days back in a foreign language was related to Modiji. We sent it to IB as we could not decipher it.  Umar had links with Kerala and Mumbai. SIMI members had earlier met in Raipur too", the ADG said.