Intelligence inputs of state Anti-Terror Squad and Delhi Police special cell state that the three Indian Mujahideen (IM) men accused of carrying out blasts in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh are hiding in Nepal.

Both the agencies have passed on the information about the whereabouts of these IM men to Union Home Ministry, it is learnt.

Delhi Police had announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh for the capture of each of these men — Dr Shahnawaz (28), Mohammad Sajid alias Bada Sajid and Mirza Sadab Beigh, all hailing from UP’s Azamgarh district.

Sources said telephone intercepts helped in getting information that indicated their presence in Nepal, where Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence has provided them a safe haven.

Shahnawaj, who had allegedly received training in Pakistan, is wanted in the September 13, 2008, Delhi serial blasts case.

He is also an accused in the 2006 Sankatmochan temple blast in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh serial court blasts on November 23, 2007, and Mumbai train serial blasts on July 11, 2006.

He is the elder brother of Saif, who was arrested by Delhi Police during the Batla House encounter on September 19, 2008.

Shahnawaz, who was then working in a private hospital in Gomti Nagar, immediately disappeared.

He had obtained a BAMS degree from Bihar and done his internship at Balrampur Hospital in Lucknow in 2007, before joining the private hospital.

Saif told police that Shahnawaz had rented a two-room house in Hussainganj area of Lucknow from where they had carried out the blasts in UP courts in November 2007.

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