The Madhya Pradesh Police are working on an intelligence input that Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) also has women as its members. “We are verifying the input. We are yet to make any arrests or identify female members,” IG (Ujjain) M P Dwiwedi said on Tuesday. The police had received information that the banned organisation has started enrolling women, probably under a separate wing called Shahin Force.An officer in Dhar, where 13 activists held last week were produced in a court, said during interrogation some of them had referred to women members as sisters. The officer said the police had also seized some letters from the SIMI activists indicating that female members could exist. He added that female relatives of the activists might be working for the organisation, but he was not aware if the female activists operated as a separate wing.However, a senior officer in Indore said there was no input regarding the existence of women members of SIMI in the city.Meanwhile, the police arrested one more SIMI activist from Indore on Tuesday taking the number of SIMI activists in custody to 21, since the first arrest was made on last Thursday. Rafiq Mohammed was picked up from Garib Nawaz colony in Indore, from where most arrests have been made so far.
