The trio – Mohd Abdul Zahid alias Motu of Moosarambagh, Mohd Samiuddin of Malakpet and maaz hassan Farooq of Humayun Nagar – the neighborhood of old Hyderabad – was caught in one fell swoop early in the morning. Four grenades, four lakh rupees in cash and incriminating documents have been recovered from the accused. He was accused of conspiring to assassinate RSS and BJP functionaries, though it was part of his confession to the State Counter-Intelligence Cell and the Special Task Force (STF) that busted the Lashkar-e-Taiba cell. was not.
He confessed that he had prepared a blueprint to spread terror and create panic and communal disharmony. They have been charged under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. The names of four other suspects in the FIR are: Adil Afroz, Abdul Hadi, Sohail Qureshi and Abdul Kaleem alias Hadi. They are absconding.
Main conspirator Zahid on Sunday revealed that he was in touch with Pakistani intelligence agency ISI. Army cross-border handlers, and three fugitive Hyderabadi suspected terrorists – Farhatullah Ghori, Siddiqui bin Usman and Abdul Majeed. It is being told that these three are in Pakistan and working for ISI.
An SIT official said: “Zahid and his group were planning to throw grenades at BJP, RSS meetings and bomb Dussehra processions to spread terror during the festive season. They also revealed that Pakistan-based handlers, Ghori, Hanzala and Majeed, had used the money to recruit Zahid and help them carry out terrorist attacks in Hyderabad. Two others, Samiuddin and Maz Hasan, who were arrested on Sunday, were Zahid recruits.
Jahed was previously involved in terrorism-related cases in Hyderabad, including the 2005 suicide attack on the city’s police commissioner’s task force office. begumpet,
Though he was acquitted along with 10 others by the sessions court, the high court issued notice on the SIT’s plea. Zahid is also in touch with his brother and Lashkar operative Mohd Abdul Majeed, who is reportedly hiding in Saudi Arabia, after a Red Corner Notice was issued against him for an aborted terrorism plot in Bengaluru.
Another accused Maz Hasan Farooq was arrested in 2018 for radicalizing the youth and maintaining links with the ISI.
Ghori and two others were instrumental in carrying out the 2002 blast near the Sai Baba temple in Dilsukhnagar, the Ghatkopar blast in Mumbai, the suicide bombing of the task force office at Begumpet in 2005 and were also part of a failed conspiracy to blow up a Ganesh temple. Were. Secunderabad in 2004. Jahed’s other brother, Shaheed Bilal, a member of Harkat-ul-Jihad-Islami, was another accused in the Begumpet bombings. He was shot dead in Karachi.
The STF claimed that a suicide bomber named Mohtasim Bilal, a member of Bangladesh-based terrorist organization Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami, had barged into the then commissioner’s office at Begumpet with a bag full of explosives and blew himself up. murder of home guard
The attack was planned to avenge the death of a young Mujahid from the city, Salim Azmi, who was shot dead by the Gujarat Police outside the DGP’s office in Lakdikapul, a suburb of Hyderabad, in 2004. Gujarat Police had come to Hyderabad to arrest a controversial cleric, Maulana Mohammad Naseeruddin, in connection with the murder of former Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya.
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