Police are investigating the links between the Indian Mujahideen and Saturday's blast [REUTERS]

Mohammed Arif, an alleged member of the Indian Mujahideen group in his mid-20s, was arrested in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh state, Suren Shrivastave, the state police spokesman, said on Monday.

The Indian Mujahideen group has claimed responsibility for bomb attacks in New Delhi more than two weeks ago, the western state of Gujarat in July and the city of Lucknow in November 2007.

The Indian Mujahideen is an offshoot of the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India with connections with Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani militant group.

The arrest came a day after police detained about a dozen people in connection with another bomb blast in a New Delhi market on Saturday.

Boy killed

Authorities said that they were investigating possible links between the blast and the Indian Mujahideen.

Two men had dropped a plastic bag in the busy Mehrauli market and sped away on a motorcycle before a bomb went off.

A boy picked up the bag and ran after the motorcyclists to return it to them before it exploded, killing him and a 60-year-old man. Another 22 people were wounded.

Another explosion on Monday killed at least one person and injured six others in the western state of Gujarat state.

A district superintendent, said: "Bomb and dog squads have been rushed to the site."

Officials were reported by the Press Trust of India as saying that the "low-intensity blast" which took place in the state's Sabarkantha district, was similar to Saturday's New Delhi blast.

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