By S.A. ISHAQUI
Hyderabad, Sept. 8: The city police now suspects that Shaik Abdul Khader, an aide of the wanted terrorist Shahed, alias Bilal, may have helped the culprits by delivering explosives that were used in the Mecca Masjid blast.
The police has zeroed in on Khader on the basis of the confession made by his younger brother Abdul Kaleem, who is in custody.
Kaleem told the police that when Khader came to Hyderabad from Dubai on May 1 he was secretive about a mysterious parcel in a polythene cover which was wrapped in a yellow plastic bag that he had brought with him.
"When I asked him about the parcel, he told me that it was to be delivered personally a friend in the old city," Kaleem said in his confession.
"And he delivered it a day or two after his arrival. But I did not know who the recipient was." Kaleem told the police that Khader had left for Dubai in March on an invitation from Fayyaq, a friend and associate of Bilal.
City police commissioner Balwinder Singh said the police had information that Khader came to the city through Mumbai. "We are in touch with immigration authorities to find out from where he reached Mumbai," said the commissioner. The suspicion is that Khader could have crossed the border illegally. He travelled to Hyderabad by road.
The police has decided to verify the calls made by Khader during his stay in Hyderabad. He had used a mobile with the number 9966157138 and gave it to his mother before leaving for Dubai.
The police had earlier got information that Abdul Bari, alias Abu Hamza, another wanted terrorist, visited the city a few days before the Mecca Masjid blast on May 18.
"We are trying to locate persons who met Hamza and Khader," said a senior police officer. "Once they are caught, the mystery behind the blast will be solved."
Kaleem also said in his confession that his elder brother Shaik Abdul Khaja left for Bangladesh without valid documents about two and a half years ago. Khaja is close associate of Shahed.
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Hamza made masjid bomb
By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad, Sept. 4: Mohammed Abdul Bari alias Abu Hamza, the most wanted man of the city police, made the bomb which killed nine persons in the historic Mecca Masjid on May 18. Police have learnt that Bari reached the city in April, assembled the bomb at Chandrayanagutta with the help of two Pakistanis and one Bangladeshi and then slipped away.
Top sources said police got this vital information after conducting narco analysis tests on suspects of the Mecca Masjid blasts, Shaik Nayeem alias Sameer, a Lashkar-e-Toiba operative, Shoaib Jagirdar, who reportedly brought RDX into the city, and Imran, his nephew. Sleuths were stunned to learn that the dreaded terrorist they had been hunting for eight years had slipped in and out of the city without their having an inkling of it.
“These confessions on Bari’s role in the blasts are corroborated by intelligence inputs that he was missing at that time from his usual hideouts in Bangladesh and Riyadh,” sources said. City Police Commissioner Balwinder Singh said police had concrete information about Bari’s arrival in the city prior to Mecca Masjid blast. He, however, refused to divulge further information.
“It cannot be termed a failure of the police that he was not caught,” said the commissioner. “Sometimes it is difficult to track the movement of such people though there were some inputs.” Mr Balwinder Singh said the police were trying to find out the remaining RDX and added that the whole conspiracy could be unravelled once it was found. It was the special investigation cell probing the case relating to the unexploded bomb that collected the information about the movement of Bari.
Imran had initially told the police that some HUJI activists were in city but he did not give names. Later, Sameer confessed that Bari came to the city and made the bomb. Investigations revealed that Bari crossed the Bangladesh border in April along with three others. The RDX also arrived by the time he reached the city. He assembled two bombs and went back to Bangladesh a few days before the blast. Sameer also confessed that 800 grams of RDX was used to make two bombs out of which only one went off. Police has videographed his confession.
Hyderabad, Sept. 4: Mohammed Abdul Bari alias Abu Hamza, the most wanted man of the city police, made the bomb which killed nine persons in the historic Mecca Masjid on May 18. Police have learnt that Bari reached the city in April, assembled the bomb at Chandrayanagutta with the help of two Pakistanis and one Bangladeshi and then slipped away.
Top sources said police got this vital information after conducting narco analysis tests on suspects of the Mecca Masjid blasts, Shaik Nayeem alias Sameer, a Lashkar-e-Toiba operative, Shoaib Jagirdar, who reportedly brought RDX into the city, and Imran, his nephew. Sleuths were stunned to learn that the dreaded terrorist they had been hunting for eight years had slipped in and out of the city without their having an inkling of it.
“These confessions on Bari’s role in the blasts are corroborated by intelligence inputs that he was missing at that time from his usual hideouts in Bangladesh and Riyadh,” sources said. City Police Commissioner Balwinder Singh said police had concrete information about Bari’s arrival in the city prior to Mecca Masjid blast. He, however, refused to divulge further information.
“It cannot be termed a failure of the police that he was not caught,” said the commissioner. “Sometimes it is difficult to track the movement of such people though there were some inputs.” Mr Balwinder Singh said the police were trying to find out the remaining RDX and added that the whole conspiracy could be unravelled once it was found. It was the special investigation cell probing the case relating to the unexploded bomb that collected the information about the movement of Bari.
Imran had initially told the police that some HUJI activists were in city but he did not give names. Later, Sameer confessed that Bari came to the city and made the bomb. Investigations revealed that Bari crossed the Bangladesh border in April along with three others. The RDX also arrived by the time he reached the city. He assembled two bombs and went back to Bangladesh a few days before the blast. Sameer also confessed that 800 grams of RDX was used to make two bombs out of which only one went off. Police has videographed his confession.
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