SIMI brass held camp in Kota last yr

New Delhi, August 20: Investigations into the Jaipur blasts have revealed that top ranking SIMI leaders, including Kerala-born software engineer Shibily Peedical Abdul and Ameel Parvez from MP and Ahmedabad blasts prime accused Abu Bashir, held a jehad indoctrination camp in Kota in November-December last year.

It is now evident that the SIMI brass, before being picked up in March, was holding subversive training camps from Kerala to UP to West Bengal and expanding their influence in the border state of Rajasthan. According to interrogation reports, top ranking SIMI leader Ameel Parvez was spreading fundamentalism in Kota before he was arrested near Indore on March 26.

However, Bashir, after confessing to execution of Ahmedabad blasts and planning of Jaipur blasts, has now backtracked and started insisting that he was just a preacher.

The Rajasthan Police is now meticulously piecing evidence on the ground and are at present questioning Kota-based Amanullah alias Aman, who was involved in bringing out a jehadi pamphlet called Tehrik-e-Taqreer. It is Aman, who was picked up from MP’s Khandwa in 2006 and now on bail, who gave details about the camps in Kota.

Imraan, who runs Razaaq Medical store in Kota, is also being questioned as the security agencies try to corroborate information revealed during interrogations. Pieceing together the evidence, it is now established that prime accused Sajid Mansuri arrived in Jaipur a day before the blasts and stayed in the hostel of SMS Hospital with Dr Abrar Ali and Taufiq, son of Ishaq Qureshi, a registered medical practitioner in Kota. Mansuri had earlier stayed at Ishaq’s house as tenant in 2002-03 after escaping post Gujarat riots. In fact, Mansuri took a train to Kota at 7 pm on May 13, just before the serial blasts in the Pink City.

Even though no international link has been ascertained from the questioning of the arrested SIMI leaders and their cadre, Abdul Subhan Qureshi, the man suspected to have written the Indian Mujahideen mails, is turning out to be a key link.

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