[3] He was involved in the Germany bakery blast, which resulted in the death of seventeen and injury of sixty-four people.
[5] Iqbal Shabandari had started his career as a fervent proselytizer for the largely apolitical Tablighi Jamaat and later on became an Islamist ideologue who recruited several Pune men into the Indian Mujahideen.
While the two Bhatkal brothers were living in a rented apartment in Khondwa, Pune they presided over terrorist networks that later carried out multiple bombings across the country.
[6] In 2007, it is believed that he wrote the manifesto that was sent to the media before they carried out terrorist attacks in the Indian cities of Lucknow, Varanasi, and Faizabad.
The way the email was written reflects the influence of Pakistan's Army with references to Muhammad bin Qasim, Ghauri, and Ghazni.