The centre has formed special teams to locate 31 most wanted persons of the Indian Mujaideen. The list of these wanted persons has been circulated to all states and union territories. According to officials sources, these special teams will make concerted efforts to apprehend the absconding IM terrorists within the country and coordinate with foreign countries where they are suspected to be hiding. The detailed dossiers about the IM militants along with photographs have also been shared with a few Gulf countries as intelligence inputs suggested that some of them were currently based there with Pakistani passports. Sources said, some of the foreign countries have already started helping the security agencies and begun surveillance on some suspects. Majority of them are either in Pakistan or in West Asia while around 10 are in India, The Indian Mujahideen is alleged to be involved in serial bomb blasts in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bangalore and Mumbai and came under spotlight on February 23, 2005 when it carried out a blast in Varanasi leaving eight people injured. The deadliest attack of the IM was in the pre-Diwali blasts in the national capital in 2005 in which 66 people were killed. The outfit's hand is seen in Pune blast that claimed 17 lives.