pune the pune unit of the state antiterrorism squad ats on tuesday obtained a production warrant from the special court here for custody of the alleged mastermind mirza himayat baig in the german bakery bomb blast for his suspected involvement in distributing jehadi literature to muslim youths in 2008ats assistant police inspector atul sabnis filed the plea seeking baigs custody before the special judge usha thakare when he was produced in the court in connection with the bakery blast on tuesdayadditional public prosecutor vijay phargade told the court that baig is an active member of the indian mujahideen and the lashkaretoiba outfits and that he was wanted in the case of distributing jehadi literaturethe involvement of baig had come to light following the arrest of six suspects feroz pathan of ghorpade peth imtiaz shaikh and ayaz khan both residents of bhimpura mohammed bilal ghulam rasul kagzi of surat nadeem shaikh of thane and shabbir gangawali of bhatkal in karnatakaphargade submitted that baig and two others taukir alias abbas subhan qureshi and one moulana had gone absconding after their involvement had surfaced in the crimethe ats had arrested pathan the then president of the banned students islamic movement of india simi at seven loves chowk following a tipoff on august 20 2008pathans arrest had led to the recovery of 40 books containing jehadi literature four video compact discs a cell phone and other documents from him investigations revealed that pathan and the others had distributed the books to incite muslim youths against other communities with an intention to create disturbance and trouble pathans involvement has been found in eight casesearlier the pune police had taken preventive action against pathan under the maharashtra prevention of dangerous activities act when the simi was banned between 200102 five other accused are out on bail pathans accomplice qureshi is involved in several bomb blast cases in the countryphargade said baig had come to pune for education but he and the other accused had distributed the jehadi literature and the vcds the ats has obtained the state governments permission for filing chargesheet against six accused under section 45 of the unlawful assembly prevention actthe prosecution pleaded to issue production warrant to the ats to take action against baig under sections 10 and 13 of the actopposing the prosecutions plea senior lawyer a rehman contended that the ats had not filed any plea before the judicial magistrate first class court for obtaining production warrant ever since he was arrested in the blast case on september 7 2009rehman submitted that there was no evidence to link baig with the indian mujahiddeen and the lashkaretoibahowever judge thakare considered the ats plea and directed them to seek baigs custody from the yerawada central jail on january 27