THE POLICE in Surat and Vadodara are drawing up lists of suspects, history-sheeters and those booked earlier in terror cases or associated with banned organisations such as the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), as part of intensifying surveillance following the blasts outside Red Fort in Delhi.

Surat Police Commissioner Anupam Singh Gahlaut has prepared a list of 15 persons who were previously involved with SIMI, and those arrested in the recovery of 29 live bombs in 2008.

The police are tracking terror accused who were released on bail, those arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and such other crimes.

For instance, in the case of the 2008 bomb seizures, the Surat police had arrested two youths, Tanveer Pathan and Mohammed Zahir Patel

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