The Delhi police have asked a private university in southern India to submit a list of all its Muslim students and its students from the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in an anti-terrorism drive, the Indian newspaper Mail Today reported.

The demand follows the arrest last week of university students allegedly involved in the September 13 serial bomb blasts in India’s capital, Delhi. Police officers told university officials that they wanted the lists for “verification” of students’ backgrounds, the newspaper said in an article titled “Communal Profiling.”

“The list runs into thousands of names. We have given the police relevant names, addresses, and photographs,” one unnamed official at Manipal University, a private institution in southern India, was quoted as saying. Surjit Pabla, director of the university’s technology institute, told the newspaper that his campus is free of terrorists. “This is the safest place in the country,” Mr. Pabla said.

Delhi police officers say that a total of 13 educated young men — members of what they term the Indian Mujahedin — from the town of Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh are the alleged perpetrators of the blasts that killed 24 people and injured more than a 100.

About a week after the blasts, the capital’s police arrested five people said to be involved in the attacks. Two were enrolled as students at Jamia Millia Islamia, a university in Delhi, and one was a student at the private Indian Institute of Planning and Management, also in Delhi.

In addition, the police said that one of those arrested was enrolled in a distance-learning management course at a branch of Manipal University, while another was a student at an unnamed institute in Manipal town. A sixth suspect, a student at Jamia Millia, was killed in a police raid. —Shailaja Neelakantan