Cop-turned terrorist on the run

Police disclosed today that Nisar was known for his subversive activities as early as in 2001 and that he had also been arrested. A police constable, Nisar left the department in 1993 and underwent training in Pakistan. He was in Hyderabad planning explosions in the city as well as in Ayodhya. Police caught him and associate Abdul Aziz Ansari on August 29, 2001, and seized electric detonators, a pistol, Rs 1 lakh and audio and video-cassettes of Babri Masjid demolition and Chechnya wars. Then, police claimed Nisar had tried to go to Chechnya but was deported from Georgia.

Nisar is suspected to have had links with Lashkar or Hizbul. Meanwhile, new information on Mohd Fahin alias Mohd Osman says that he shared a room with Azizuddin Sheikh alias Bombay Javed in Mumbai in 1996. But Osman was not aware of Javed’s activities. A police officer said: ‘‘He wanted to go abroad for job, but could not clear his tests; therefore, he used this way of obtaining the passport.’’