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Top SIMI leader Nagori was a 'key conspirator' in Ahd blasts
Movement of India leader Safdar Nagori was allegedly a key conspirator in the Ahmedabad blasts and may be involved in Jaipur and Hyderabad terror strikes, Gujarat police saidTuesday.
They also claimed that Mufti Abu Bashir, alleged mastermind of the July 26 Ahmedabad blasts, who was arrested from Uttar Pradesh, has "confessed" to his involvement in theserial explosions.
Throwing fresh light on the probe, they alleged that Nagori and his brother Karimuddin were main trainers during S.I.M.I.'s training camps in Kerala (December 2007) and Halolin Gujarat (January 2008).
"They are also key conspirators who designed and planned the terror attacks in Ahmedabad. They may also be involved in Jaipur and Hyderabad blasts," said Joint Commissioner of Police (crime branch) Ashish Bhatia, who is leading theinvestigation into Ahmedabad blasts.
Nagori and some of his close associates were arrestedwere arrested from Indore in Madhya Pradesh in March.
Gujarat police has decided to seek the custody of Nagori from Madhya Pradesh police and is likely to bring him to Ahmedabad for questioning, he said In a step related to the probe, Vadodara police has sealed an apartment and mounted a round-the-clock vigil on it as it suspected that absconding Mumbai-based computer engineer Taufique Bilal had put together the deadly explosive devicesplanted in Ahmedabad and Surat in that house.
Bashir, who is currently being grilled in police custody, has "confessed to his involvement in the Ahmedabad blasts" but has not stated anything about his suspected rolein Jaipur or Hyderabad terror strikes, police said.
"He is just giving short replied to the questions asked by the officials. Most of his replies are in yes orno," they said.
Bashir was a madrasa teacher in Hyderabad, where he came in contact with the hardline S.I.M.I. faction led by Nagori. After Nagori's arrest in March, Bashir took up thetask of carrying out the Ahmedabad blasts, police claimed.
"We are presently concentrating on interrogation of those arrested by us. Later we will bring Nagori for further interrogation. We believe he was instrumental in planning the blasts in Ahmedabad. He may have also arranged for funds toprocure explosives and other materials," Bhatia said.
According to crime branch officers, Nagori is an expert trainer who can influence young people with hisinflammatory speeches.
Besides Kerala and Gujarat, training camps of the banned SIMI were also in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh and Dharwad district of Karnataka, officers conducting interrogations of the suspects said. Activists were trained in pistol firing, rock climbing, map reading and otheractivities.
Interrogation of the suspects also revealed that Taufique Bilal, whose real name is Abdul Subhan, believed to be one of the masterminds behind the serial blasts, was publisher and editor of magazine --Islamic Movement--published from New Delhi, they said.
Taufique is wanted in over five cases by police of different states, they said. He was wanted in a blast case in Mumbai and a case against S.I.M.I. in Surat, the officerssaid.
The Mumbai-based computer expert, believed to be the one who had sent email in the name of 'Indian Mujahidin', is also wanted for making inflammatory speeches on communal riotsin Gujarat and other states.
They also claimed that Mufti Abu Bashir, alleged mastermind of the July 26 Ahmedabad blasts, who was arrested from Uttar Pradesh, has "confessed" to his involvement in theserial explosions.
Throwing fresh light on the probe, they alleged that Nagori and his brother Karimuddin were main trainers during S.I.M.I.'s training camps in Kerala (December 2007) and Halolin Gujarat (January 2008).
"They are also key conspirators who designed and planned the terror attacks in Ahmedabad. They may also be involved in Jaipur and Hyderabad blasts," said Joint Commissioner of Police (crime branch) Ashish Bhatia, who is leading theinvestigation into Ahmedabad blasts.
Nagori and some of his close associates were arrestedwere arrested from Indore in Madhya Pradesh in March.
Gujarat police has decided to seek the custody of Nagori from Madhya Pradesh police and is likely to bring him to Ahmedabad for questioning, he said In a step related to the probe, Vadodara police has sealed an apartment and mounted a round-the-clock vigil on it as it suspected that absconding Mumbai-based computer engineer Taufique Bilal had put together the deadly explosive devicesplanted in Ahmedabad and Surat in that house.
Bashir, who is currently being grilled in police custody, has "confessed to his involvement in the Ahmedabad blasts" but has not stated anything about his suspected rolein Jaipur or Hyderabad terror strikes, police said.
"He is just giving short replied to the questions asked by the officials. Most of his replies are in yes orno," they said.
Bashir was a madrasa teacher in Hyderabad, where he came in contact with the hardline S.I.M.I. faction led by Nagori. After Nagori's arrest in March, Bashir took up thetask of carrying out the Ahmedabad blasts, police claimed.
"We are presently concentrating on interrogation of those arrested by us. Later we will bring Nagori for further interrogation. We believe he was instrumental in planning the blasts in Ahmedabad. He may have also arranged for funds toprocure explosives and other materials," Bhatia said.
According to crime branch officers, Nagori is an expert trainer who can influence young people with hisinflammatory speeches.
Besides Kerala and Gujarat, training camps of the banned SIMI were also in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh and Dharwad district of Karnataka, officers conducting interrogations of the suspects said. Activists were trained in pistol firing, rock climbing, map reading and otheractivities.
Interrogation of the suspects also revealed that Taufique Bilal, whose real name is Abdul Subhan, believed to be one of the masterminds behind the serial blasts, was publisher and editor of magazine --Islamic Movement--published from New Delhi, they said.
Taufique is wanted in over five cases by police of different states, they said. He was wanted in a blast case in Mumbai and a case against S.I.M.I. in Surat, the officerssaid.
The Mumbai-based computer expert, believed to be the one who had sent email in the name of 'Indian Mujahidin', is also wanted for making inflammatory speeches on communal riotsin Gujarat and other states.
