Chennai Central Station Blast

[shiv]

actually less than that, if you buy in whole sum, but my point is after sometime no one will bother to maintain it

We live on Hope. "Abki baar Modi sarkar" , and as Modi says: We have swaraj (self governance). Let us now have su-raaj (good governance)

[SSridhar]

X-post from the Internal Security thread
Suspected Al-Umma Operative's posters put up across TN by the police - Daniel George, ToI

In a bid to nab suspected Al-Umma operative Abu Bakr Siddiq, crime branch CID sleuths of the Tamil Nadu police have put up 'wanted' posters containing his photograph at vital locations across the state. On the run since the April 17, 2013, BJP office blasts in Bangalore, Siddiq is considered an expert in explosives. He is also thought to be behind the May 1 twin blasts on board the Bangalore-Guwahati Express at Chennai Central which left one dead and 13 injured.

Diplomatic sources in the Gulf said they had received inputs from central intelligence agencies about his possible presence in the UAE and Saudi Arabia from where the Al-Umma outfit is believed to be receiving funds from sympathisers. The sources said the possibility of Siddiq travelling on a fake passport and seeking refuge in Saudi Arabia could not be ruled out. A senior intelligence officer from Tamil Nadu, posted at the Indian Embassy in Riyadh, said, "There are many sympathisers here who have been in touch with this particular outfit."

According to H Omkariah, investigating officer in the Bangalore blasts, Siddiq was the mastermind behind the explosion that shook the BJP office in Malleswaram in Bangalore in 2013 and since then had disappeared from the radar of intelligence officers.

A few days ago, CB-CID officers questioned 'police' Fakrudeen, Al-Umma operative, in Coimbatore. In their confession earlier, Fakruddin and his colleagues Bilal Malik and Panna Islamil said they had been sourcing explosives from Udupi in Karnataka. They said they had got their first ever consignment of ammonium nitrate, used in the Bangalore blasts, from Udupi.

The three operatives said they had been reporting to Siddiq who they claimed was the head of the outfit. He was not only part of the planning, but was also the one who ensured funding for the group, police officers said. Officials said there had been a fallout in the outfit after the dramatic arrest of Panna Ismail and Bilal Malik in Puttur, Andhra Pradesh, following the information provided by Fakruddin, who was arrested in Chennai earlier. A police officer was seriously injured in the Puttur operation.

[SSridhar]

A local vernacula paper 'Dinamalar' is reporting that the blast was by IM and the NIA have solved the case after investigating the Burdhwan bomb blast. The two women arrested in that case have confirmed that their husbands recceed Chennai several times. Their target was to plant bombs wherever Modi addressed rallies. The bomb was expected to explode in Andhra Pradesh but because the train was delayed it exploded at the Central station. The NIA has also confirmed that the chemical analyses at Burdhwan & Central Station are identical.

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A local vernacula paper 'Dinamalar' is reporting that the blast was by IM and the NIA have solved the case after investigating the Burdhwan bomb blast. The two women arrested in that case have confirmed that their husbands recceed Chennai several times. Their target was to plant bombs wherever Modi addressed rallies. The bomb was expected to explode in Andhra Pradesh but because the train was delayed it exploded at the Central station. The NIA has also confirmed that the chemical analyses at Burdhwan & Central Station are identical.

Saar same was quoted by english language press as well.. Surprise is that it is a Bangladeshi Outfit behind the blasts .. They operate out of Madrassas in Southern West Bengal.. Where immigrant population is spilling over
Could the so called friendly Banglas be ISI sponsored pawns, trained to infiltrate ..
I'm on mobile, I'll post the links when I find a keyboard..

[ramana]

The Burdwan link is too facile. Why would a BanglaDesh terrorist network operating out of West Bengal under TMC govt protection try to bomb Modi rallies all over India?
Was it pro quid quo for the protection in WB?

[Pratyush]

Or may be the WB terror mudule is local with no connection to BD. With BD angle thrown in to muddle the investigation.

[kish]

TN crime branch CID sleuths have cracked this case, it isn't "Al-Umma" as suspected. SIMI gang has executed this blast, and as predicted the target seemed to be the then PM candidate Modi ji's rally.

Simi men from MP were behind Chennai Central station blasts

In a major breakthrough in the twin blasts at Chennai Central railway station in May, crime branch CID sleuths have confirmed the handiwork Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) operatives who escaped from Khandwa prison in Madhya Pradesh last year.

Six SIMI men had escaped after drilling a hole on the rest room inside the prison on September 30, 2013. They were Amjad, Aslam, Zakir, Mehboob, all hailing from Khandwa; Ejazuddin, a native of Kareli; and Abu Faizal from Juhu. Their companion Aabid Mirza, a resident of Hatampura, Khandwa was caught after he escaped from the prison.

Inquiries had revealed that the same gang had earlier involved in a bank heist in Andhra Pradesh and a bomb blast in Uttar Pradesh. However, senior police officers refused to give details on how they zeroed in on the SIMI operatives.

"We have got enough information to confirm the handiwork of these men in the twin blast case. We will present the details when the time comes," a police officer said. Police said a team will be sent to Khandwa prison in Madhya Pradesh to get more details about the fundamentalists. They were arrested in Madhya Pradesh in 2012 after they shot dead three people. They were reportedly hiding in Pakistan before their arrest.

An officer involved with the Central station cases said the SIMI men had travelled from Bangalore to Chennai to conduct a recce before planting bombs in the train. He added that the target was not Chennai. The train was delayed and the bombs went off at Central station, killing a woman.

After collecting photographs of the men from the Madhya Pradesh police, teams have fanned out in search of them, the officer said.

[saip]

The train timings do not compute. Modi was to have been in Nellore which is 180 km north. Even if the train was on time it would have reached only Gummidipundi, about 50 km north. The train was delayed only by 45 minutes.

[SSridhar]

Suspect in Chennai Central blast killed - The Hindu

One of the suspects in the May 2014 blast at the Chennai Central railway station was among the two alleged SIMI activists gunned down by the Andhra Pradesh police in Nalgonda district a couple of days ago.

According to an official in the CB-CID that is probing the blasts on board the Bangalore-Guwahati Express, which killed a woman passenger and injured 14 others on May 1 last year, Md. Aijajuddeen of Madhya Pradesh was one of the persons whose involvement was suspected. Aijajuddeen, his associate Md. Aslam alias Bilal were killed when police opened fire on Saturday.

[chetak]

Suspect in Chennai Central blast killed - The Hindu

One of the suspects in the May 2014 blast at the Chennai Central railway station was among the two alleged SIMI activists gunned down by the Andhra Pradesh police in Nalgonda district a couple of days ago.

According to an official in the CB-CID that is probing the blasts on board the Bangalore-Guwahati Express, which killed a woman passenger and injured 14 others on May 1 last year, Md. Aijajuddeen of Madhya Pradesh was one of the persons whose involvement was suspected. Aijajuddeen, his associate Md. Aslam alias Bilal were killed when police opened fire on Saturday.

the suspect folks seem to have been well chosen and sent on to their 72. maybe someday the actual facts will out.

[SSridhar]

Four SIMI fugitives nabbed in Odisha - The Hindu

Four members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) who had escaped from Khandwa jail in Madhya Pradesh in 2013 were arrested from Rourkela in Odisha after a three-hour operation involving an exchange of fire on Tuesday night.

They are suspected to be involved in the Bengaluru-Guwahati train blast at the Chennai Central station that killed a young software engineer, on May 1, 2014,

Those who were arrested have been identified as Mohammad Aijajudden, Amjad Khan, Zakir Hussein and Mahboob Guddu and Najma Bee (Mahboob’s mother).

[Gus]

Iirc usual suspects were alleging this to be modi own doing to get sympathy blah blah

[ramana]

SS Mohd Aijajuddin was supposed to be shot in Telangana in April 2015. See above post.

[SSridhar]

Suspect involved in twin blasts held - The Hindu

The Crime Branch CID of the Tamil Nadu police on Tuesday claimed that one of the four suspected SIMI activists arrested by the Odisha police last week was involved in the May 2014 blasts on a train in Chennai Central railway station.

According to sources, the suspect, Zakhir (23), had confessed that he was one of the persons who planted the bombs in the Bangalore-Guwahati tri-weekly express.

The bombs exploded , killing a woman passenger and injuring 14 others. An investigator parried questions on the motive, source of explosives and why the accused targeted the Bangalore-Guwahati train. He said Izazzudin, another suspect involved , was killed in a police encounter in Nalgonda, Telangana, a few months ago.

[SSridhar]

SS Mohd Aijajuddin was supposed to be shot in Telangana in April 2015. See above post.

Yes, the above post also confirms that. I don't know why the Odisha report says he was one of those arrested.

OK, the Hindustan Times report gives the names, Insha Allah, correctly

The five arrested people were identified as Zaakir Khan, 32; Amjad Khan, 27; Md Salik, 32; Mehboob Khan, 27; and Mehboob’s mother Nazma Bibi, 55; all from Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh.