Policemen produce the accused in court. Pic/Datta Kumbhar

The Mumbai Crime Branch yesterday arrested Irfan Ahmad Qureshi in the 2002 Ghatkopar blast case. He was picked up from Aurangabad by the Gujarat ATS and handed over to crime branch's unit X. Eight other suspects tried under the POTA were acquitted in June 2005. Officers said Qureshi's name had been mentioned in the confessional statement of one of the eight.