A top West Bengal official has said the state sent a detailed report on the growing threat from Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami (HUJI) to the Centre about two months back and mentioned Hyderabad among possible targets of terrorist attacks by the Bangladesh-based group. “We send regular information regarding militant groups and their activities to the central government. The report on HUJI was one in which Hyderabad was indicated as a possible target,” Prasad Ranjan Roy, Home Secretary, told The Indian Express today. The state’s intelligence inputs were passed on to the Union Home Ministry and other Central agencies, he said. HUJI is known to have had Hyderabad on its terror map. In November 2005, for example, HUJI militants Nafiq Ul Biswas and Suhag Khan were arrested in West Bengal’s Malda district. A month earlier, they had allegedly ferried three suicide bombers — Mohtasin, Arshad and Sharif — to Hyderabad to carry out the October 12 bombing of the STF headquarters that killed one Home Guard and injured another. Khan revealed his real identity as Hilaluddin, alias Hilal, a resident of Rajshahi in Bangladesh. Biswas is said to have confessed that he regularly brought HUJI militants from Bangladesh to India through the porous border. His job included procuring explosives and raising funds by selling narcotics supplied to him. Meanwhile, in Jharkhand today, the three persons detained by the state CID and Jharkhand police on a SIM card lead, were released after it was found that the SIM card was given against the driving license of a person called Babulal Yadav, said Bhupinder Singh, Addl DGP (CID), West Bengal. Yadav’s license showed he was a resident of Asansol but the address proved to be fake on verification. The SIM card was bought from a shop named Sargam Audio Vision in Jharkhand. The three who were brought to Kolkata and interrogated were Md Sahid and A K Jain, owners of Sargam in Jamtara, and Sanjay Singh, proprietor of Uma Telecom in Asansol.
