NEW DELHI: Bihar Police has finally woken up to the Indian Mujahedeen (IM) threat with the Bihar Director General of Police (DGP) Abhayanand on Thursday confirming that a new case has been registered at Patna regarding the activities of the IM in certain districts of the state of Bihar.The state police had come under fierce criticism for not interrogating or taking the custody of IM mastermind Yasin Bhatkal subsequent to his arrest by security agencies in Bihar in August prompting the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to take his custody. The Bihar DGP said his force had not done so as it had no case of the IM registered in the state then."A new case has now been registered in Patna few days ago against the IM's activities in the state. We may seek Bhatkal's custody in that case," Abhayanand said, adding that IM's absconding commander who belongs to Samastipur district in Bihar, Tehseen Akhtar has been named in the said FIR . Bhatkal had earlier confessed to his interrogators at NIA that he had set up terror modules in Darbhanga and Madhubani districts. The Bihar DGP also said that a recent terror funding case exposed by Bihar Police show that IM is getting terror funds from Pakistan. "There is a definite Pakistan link," he said.Asked on the allegation by Gujarat Police that Bihar Police had not signed on providing Advance Security Liaison (ASL) facility to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi during the Hunkar rally in Patna last month, the Bihar DGP clarified that Modi was not entitled to ASL at that particular point of time."He was only subsequently made entitled to ASL facility," he said. Abhayanand, who was in Delhi for the annual DGP's conference, maintained that the dais from where BJP leaders addressed the rally was safe. "The nearest bomb found from the dais was 350 meters away," he said, admitting though that it was not possible for the police to sanitize the entire Gandhi Maidan area given that over 1.5 lakh people had arrived at the ground in little less than two hours.