new delhi in a worrying sign for internal security in india investigating agencies believe the recent blasts conducted by indian mujahideen including the one in hyderabad were indigenously funded without any or little financial assistance from across the border agencies believe that the core group of im operating in india under ahmed zarar siddibappa alias yasin bhatkal is now merely drawing ideological strength from pakistan while selffunding its operations a senior officer connected with the hyderabad blasts investigations said we have reasons to believe yasin is no more dependent on financial aid from pakistan to execute blasts in india at least in three past blasts he hasnt sought finance from across the order he is though regularly in touch with riyaz and iqbal bhatkal im founders in pakistan but mostly to seek guidance discuss plans and as an assurance of support the officer added that yasin along with his core group is fully indoctrinated and takes its work as a mission without any expectations of personal gain also to make imtype bombs you do not need much money which he has been generating locally after all hindutva radicals too generated finances for their attacks locally the officer said the revelation makes yasins group suspected to be behind the february 21 hyderabad blasts even more potent given that it has little dependence elsewhere and can execute blasts at will in fact ims promoter amir reza khan started his foray into financing terror through abductions in kolkata indigenous funding will also make the work of investigating agencies more difficult as tracking transfer of funds was one of the key ways to identify the conspirators behind terror activities it was revealed during the interrogation of im operatives syed maqbool and imran khan by national investigation agency nia that they had only been asked to reccee dilsukhnagar without any idea of the impending blasts they however revealed that riyaz bhatkal had specifically asked them to survey venkatadri theatre bus stop and the eatery nearby the two spots in dilsukhnagar where blasts took place they said the sai temple a little distance away was never a target meanwhile the link between ims pune blast module of which maqbool is a part and lets bangalorehublinaded module became stronger with nia questioning let operative obaidur rehmans brother masdoorurrehman investigations have found that it was masdoor who provided bikes to maqbool and imran to survey dilsukhnagar in july 2012 he however says he was not aware of the purpose for which maqbool was seeking bikes since he was known to him he arranged for the bikes we are checking the veracity of his statement an officer privy to investigation details said masdoor however has not been arrested