Police teams rush to Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad to round up IM militants

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, July 6, 2012: Police teams have rushed to Kolkata, Bangalore, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Maharashtra to round up Indian Mujahideen terrorists working in tandem with Lashkar-e-Toiba, on the basis of info given by terrorist Abu Jundal, Times of India reported.

The most worrying revelation is: Syed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal has told the Delhi Police that Lashkar-e-Taiba has jointly set up bases with Indian Mujahideen all over India for future operations.

Jundal has also given important inputs about some invisible handlers of Lashkar and IM who played important roles in blasts across the country in the past four years.

Jundal, sources said, also gave the names of various IM terrorists in India and teams have been rushed to Hyderabad and Bangalore to look for some of them.

The teams are also on the lookout for IM members in Kolkata,Bihar,Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh,sources said.

We have come to know about various plans of Lashkar, a senior officer said, adding that the names of his India-based associates have surfaced during questioning.

Officials refused to give the names of these operatives, who work for both Lashkar and IM.

Officials said LeT has provided training to several Indian Mujahideen members in the last few years and Riyaz Bhatkal and Iqbal Bhatkal monitored these terror training programmes.

In the last 15 days, the Delhi Police procured call details of four international SIM cards belonging to Jundal through diplomatic channels.

Subsequently, it recovered at least nine email IDs and contact list of his mobile phones which has numbers of Lashkar and IM operatives in India, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and, most importantly, several SMS conversations between him and some of the Lashkar handlers.

Jundal also said that he knew about the planning for Bangalore IISc and Rampur attacks,which were done by Abu Hamza, even though he was not part of it.

While he was in Pakistan for training, he came to know about this plan of attack on scientists in India by Lashkar which was being monitored by Hamza.He was in one of those meetings, a source said.

Also, Jundal has given some important inputs about Rampur CRPF camp attack.

In his email conversations, sources said there are names of several places and members who were in touch with him and had to execute some plans for Lashkar-e-Taiba.

The investigators have also traced the whereabouts of his friend-cum-associate Fayyaz Kagzi,who is said to be hiding in Abu Dhabi.