Home Minister Shivraj Patil said on Wednesday that the two persons nabbed in Jammu and Kashmir for their alleged links with terrorists belong to the India Reserve Battalion and not to the army.

"They are not armymen but from IRB," he said in the Rajya Sabha, intervening in a short discussion on the Mumbai blasts.

The Home Minister's remarks came soon after senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Murali Manohar Joshi referred to media reports about the arrest of the two for their alleged links with terrorists.

The two were arrested on Saturday for suspected links with a LeT commander.