The 34-year-old man, Amir Ullah Shaikh, arrested by Navi Mumbai police early this month for the graffiti mentioning ISIS, its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and 26/11 Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafeez Saeed in Uran, was in touch with terror suspects in Nepal for the past two years, police told mid-day.

A school dropout, Shaikh shifted to Navi Mumbai in 2005, from his hometown Siddhartha Nagar in Uttar Pradesh. He works as a forklift truck driver at the Container Freight Station in Navi Mumbai. He stays with his wife, children, three brothers and their wives in Khopta village.