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Bangalore: Auto driver helps nab blast accused, says no to Rs 5 lac prize

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Bangalore, Apr 24: An auto driver who voluntarily came forward as the prime witness to help catch the accused in the recent bomb blast near BJP office at Malleshwaram here, has reportedly declined from accepting the Rs 5 lac prize money.

As per the information obtained, on the day of the blast, the auto driver had seen four people who had parked their bike near the BJP office, with a bomb planted on it, and even on the previous day the driver had seen the same people having a conversation at the same place on several phones.

After the bomb blast incident, the driver voluntarily approached the police commissioner to give his eyewitness account and revealed the details of the four persons he had seen.

Taking serious note of his statement, the commissioner along with other officials examined the footage in the CCTV camera installed nearby. Later the Bangalore police and Tamil Nadu intelligence officers were successful in arresting the accused from Tamil Nadu.

Among the three arrested, two were held from Chennai and another from Madurai in a late night operation on Monday April 22.

After the arrest, the auto driver confirmed that he had seen the same people planting bomb near the BJP office.

For his brave gesture, the government announced a prize money of Rs 5 lac but the big-hearted auto driver refused and instead asked the officials to utilize the money for the treatment of people injured in the blast.

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Al-Ummah operatives planned the blasts with the objective that the police would suspect the involvement of the RSS leader once the SIM card was tracked. However, the police have not yet questioned the politician about why no complaint was lodged either with the police or the service provider about the loss of the phone and the SIM. The police, however, are expected to quiz the Sangh leader soon.

In addition to this, the police have also found that 16 SIM cards were used while planning this attack. All the SIM cards were either stolen or had been procured using fake documents, investigations point out.

“These SIM cards were distributed among the operatives who used it for communication with each other. In fact, the SIM card, which was used outside the blast site to make a call lead the police to the alleged operatives. Their location was tracked through a mobile tower,” police officials investigating the case said.

B’lore blast probe proves TN terrorists’ haven

Monday, 13 May 2013 | Kumar Chellappan | CHENNAI


With the arrest of 28-year-old Zulfiqar Ali, a Coimbatore resident, the number of people held from Tamil Nadu in connection with the April 17 bomb blast near the BJP office in Bangalore has gone up to 10. Intelligence agencies, both the Central and State, are worried over the fact that Tamil Nadu is being used as a safe haven by various terrorist elements and extremists.

“Zulfiqar is a graduate in electronics and electrical engineering. All the 10 who were held from Tamil Nadu belong to the upper strata of society. This is disturbing,” a senior intelligence official told The Pioneer.

He said grey areas in laws and rules make it difficult for intelligence officials to pursue and track individuals suspected of links to terrorism. The official said the police has established Zulfiqar’s link with Al Umma and other extremist organisations.

He also said the absence of strong laws come in the way of intelligence gathering. “We got information that 12 extremists who were trained in Pakistani camps have entered India through the Nepal border. We also got the information that nine of them hailed from Tamil Nadu while the remaining three are from Kerala. We could not get more details because of lack of coordination between agencies in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka,” he said. According to him, all the nine youth could have joined sleeping cells spread across Tamil Nadu.

The modus operandi of the extremists hailing from Tamil Nadu and Kerala is simple. “They strike wherever they want except in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. After the execution of the work, they silently and effortlessly withdraw to their safe shelters in these States,” he said.

Noted security analyst and counter terrorism expert B Raman had termed Tamil Nadu as the epicentre of Al Umma terrorism. Though Al Umma, responsible for the 1998 Coimbatore blasts in which more than 50 persons were killed, is banned, it is operating all over South India under various names and labels.

According to Raman, a former additional secretary in the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India’s counter-terrorism leadership is in a state of decline. “The delay in the setting up of National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) because of the absence of political consensus has left a big gap in our counter terrorism architecture,” said Raman.

Though banned in 1998 for its involvement in the Coimbatore serial blasts, Al Umma is active all over Tamil Nadu under various names and labels. Manithaneya Makkal Katchi, a political outfit which is an ally of the ruling AIADMK, is a frontal organisation of Al Umma. Its lone MLA MH Jawaharullah, is a law unto himself.

The fact that Islamic extremist elements have grown into a hydra-headed monster came out in the open during September 2012, when hundreds of activists drawn from various Islamic outfits held the city to ransom for three days. The agitation was to protest against the movie Innocence of Muslims, produced in the US. Police is yet to understand how a protest march turned out to be a “siege” to the Mount Road, the main thoroughfare in the capital city.

“Friday prayer meetings are used by leaders of extremist organisations for networking with the faithful. They are supported by Moulavis who through their sermons exhort the people to extend all support to the extremist elements,” said the intelligence official.

Al Umma and Jihad Committee were formed following the countrywide ban on SIMI. Al Umma made its presence felt in Tamil Nadu with a bomb blast at the RSS headquarters in Chennai in November 1993, killing 11 RSS workers.

The Jihad Committee, which has been regularly indulging in communal riots in the State, disintegrated when its leader Palani Baba was murdered by Hindu activists. The MMK was launched to give a political colour to Islamic fundamentalism. It was founded by Hyder Ali, a SIMI activist and former associate of Palani Baba in the Jihad Committee, who left Al Umma after a tiff with its president Basha.

“Neither the banning of SIMI and Al Umma, nor disintegration of the Jihad Committee reduced Islamic fundamentalism in Tamil Nadu. In fact, it started growing in different names with the support of Dravidian parties, which go to any extent for the sake of vote banks,” said BR Haran, a political commentator.

The latest additions to the list are Tamil Nadu Thauheed Jamaath and SDPI (Social Democratic Party of India). Though they look like competing with each other in the social arena in taking up the cause of Muslims, they have a tacit understanding when it comes to fundamentalism. “The recent happenings in Tamil Nadu, such as, protests for movies like Innocence of Muslims, Thuppakki and Vishwaroopam, and the surge in attacks on BJP cadre and various other Hindu organisations, all point to the fact that all these organisations would come together on a common ground whenever required,” said Haran.

shyamd wrote:Tamil Nadu intel inform counterparts that an associate of blast accused has vowed to avenge arrest of BJP office blast suspect. That too 20 of 25kg (5kg used already in BLR) explosive bought is still out. TN say this can be used at any time. Buhari is singing in interrogation about modus operandi

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