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| Hunt on for ex-SIMI leader; police raid house in Bangalore |
| 2008-02-07 |
| The State police have launched a hunt for Adnan, former regional convenor of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), who is suspected to be one of the key persons in the terrorist module recently busted by the Davangere police. As part of the operations, the staff from the Anti-Terrorist Squad searched a house in HAL police station limits in Bangalore. However, they could not find Adan there, sources in the police told The Hindu on Tuesday. The search for Adnan, a native of Bijapur, has been intensified mainly to ascertain the whereabouts of the consignment of firearms that was supplied to the terror module by its handlers in Pakistan and also to unearth the terror network in the State, the sources said. The police learnt about the activities of Adnan after they arrested his accomplice and a SIMI activist Mohammed Asif, a final year MBBS student of Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences in Hubli. But Adnan had gone underground by then. After scanning the mobile phone details of Asif, the investigators found that Adnan had spoken to him from a public call office in Annasandrapalya in HAL police station limits in Bangalore. The police squad questioned the phone booth owner and traced the house of AdnanÂ’s brother who lives in Annasandrapalya. The search of the house did not yield anything significant, the sources said. The arms consignment, which was reportedly in AsifÂ’s possession, was shifted to an undisclosed place following the arrest of the alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Riyazuddin Nasir and his aide Asadullah Abubaker in Honnali in Davangere district last month, they said. According to the sources in the Bijapur district police, a police team from Davangere visited Bijapur city four days ago and searched for weapons at a house situated near Remand Home in Gol Gumbaz police station limits. The house belongs to an engineering graduate who lives in Bangalore. The Bijapur police said they had no clues about the terror suspect Adnan, though three persons with the same name were studying in a local medical college. Meanwhile, the Judicial Magistrate First Class Court in Honnali on Tuesday permitted the police to subject the arrested persons to narco analysis. They will undergo brain mapping and polygraph tests also at the State Forensic Science Laboratory in Bangalore. The court has remanded the two in the custody of the Corps of Detectives (CoD) till Sunday. Hubli-Dharwad Police Commissioner Narayana Nadumani said that a CoD team, led by Inspector-General of Police M.R. Pujar and Deputy Inspector-General of Police Alok Kumar, arrived in Hubli on Tuesday. |
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