Currently said to be in Karachi, Pakistan, Raza was in constant touch with the SIMI top brass and supervised, planned and provided financial assistance to the IM for carrying out the attacks.

The chargesheet says that Raza figures prominently as the person who initiated the whole process of the formation of IM, a radical splinter group of the banned Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).

The DCB already has in its custody Raizuddin Nasir, a Laskar-e-Toiba (LeT) operative said to have undergone training in Pakistan. Nasir has also been named as one of the persons who attended the Wagamon training camp.

According to the police, Raza and Nasir establish the close links IM has with the LeT and HuJI, known terrorist organisations that played their part in the bomb blasts.

The chargesheet says that Raza was in touch with Riaz Bhatkal and Iqbal Bhatkal, alleged IM co-founders, and spoke to them about carrying out terror strikes in the country. Riaz contacted Abdul Subhan alias Tauqeer and communicated the same to him. This led to the formation of a core group of members that included Qyamuddin Kapdaia, Kamruddin Nagori, Aamil Pervez, Sihbly, Safdar Nagori, Hafiz Hussain and Mufti Abdul Bashar.

The chargesheet further states that this initiative from Raza led to the setting up of training camp at Wagamon in Kerala between December 9 and 12, 2007.

According to the DCB, around 40 to 50 people attended the camp, where incendiary speeches and bomb-making methods were shown to the participants.

This camp was followed by another at Wagamon between January 12-15 this year where it was decided that Ahmedabad and Surat will be the chosen targets. According to the DCB, this is where the conspiracy of the Ahmedabad blasts also took form. As such, all those who attended the camp have been named as accused in the case, the police said.