"All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen strongly refutes this claim which has no basis whatsoever. AIMIM does not have district unit in Nanded and it has only a city unit headed by Syed Moin," AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi said in a statement tonight.
"The said (Sayed Maqbool) accused person has nothing to do with AIMIM, much less holding any party post. One person by name Maqbool had taken membership of the party unit at Dharmabad village. But the party unit there was dissolved one and half years ago", Owaisi added.
Earlier, Delhi Police claimed that Indian Mujahideen terrorists were planning to carry out a 'fidayeen' attack at Bihar's Bodh Gaya to avenge "atrocities" against Muslims in Myanmar, after it arrested a fifth man in connection with Pune serial blasts in August this year.
Sayed Maqbool, a resident of Maharashtra's Nanded whom police claimed is the district president of All India Majlis Itehad-ul Muslimeen which has an MP in Lok Sabha, was apprehended from Hyderabad on October 23, SN Srivastava, Special Commissioner of Police (Special Cell), said.