Madni recruited 30 youths for Lashkar,say police

The Delhi team had caught Madni from Qutub Minar area on June 4.

During questioning,Madni revealed the name of a hand he recruited and trained — Saleem — a resident of Aligarh,whom he had handed over Fake Indian Currency Notes with a face value of Rs 4.5 lakh and Rs 5 lakh to give to another operative,Ahmed of Patna. The Delhi Special Cell and Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad are now verifying the details.

The primary interrogation report of Madni stated that he had done his Maulviat (fazilat) from Jamia Salafia madarsa in Varanasi’s Revari Talab from 1969 to 1978.

Sources in the Special Cell revealed that the LeT operative told the interrogators that his father had shifted to Nepal and opened a madarsa — Jamia Salafia — at Janakpur Dham in Dhanausa district.

A native of Basopatti in Bihar’s Madhubani,Madni had shifted to Saptari district of Nepal in 1995,where he,too,established a madarsa that year and another in Kathmandu in 1996.

The report further stated that Abdul Khalid and Abdul of Nepal-based Salafi school Markaz-Dawa-Wal-Irshad had helped to send him to Lahore in 1997,where he was trained under Daura-e-Aam and Daura-e-Khaas courses run by Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Lashkar.

It was only then the Jamat and Lashkar chiefs Hafeez Mohammad Saeed and Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhwi had assigned him the job of recruiting. Madni had opened an office — Nice Travels & Tours — in Kathmandu in 2000 and the Pakistan-based LeT chief had sent his confidant Saifullah to stay with Madni and help him.

Madni reportedly said Saifullah was called back to Pakistan and was replaced by Usman after three of their men were arrested in Delhi in 2004. Another LeT member,Kamaal Ansari,whom he recruited has already been arrested in Mumbai train blast case in 2006,Madni told the Special Cell.