07-21-2006, 07:48 PM
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Thursday, July 20, 2006 08:22:31 pm
In TIMES NOW's possession is an exclusive copy of a document, an affidavit submitted by the Kerala police on May 30. 2006 to the Delhi High Court which chronicles how a banned militant outfit seems to be openly thriving in Kerala.
According to the document, the student outfit Students' Islamic Movement of India or SIMI, banned since 2001, is re-grouping under the banner of 12 organisations in the state.
<b>SIMI's growing network</b>
SIMI has, the document states, regrouped under the banner of 12
organisations, including the following:SIMI IN KERALA
<b>⪠The NDF
⪠Islamic Youth Centre
⪠Karuna Foundation
⪠Solidarity Students Movement</b>
All these are headed by former SIMI heads.
These groups together have spread their tentacles across the state, from capital Thiruvananthapuram to Calicut, Kannur and Malapuram.
The report says- "SIMI is re-grouping and mobilisng. Most SIMI members are still holding extremist and exclusivist religious ideals and they join various other organisations...."
In fact TIMES NOW learns that there is a top-secret report by the Home Ministry which indicates that top SIMI leaders in Kerala held fund-raising meetings with international organizations like World Assembly of Muslim Youth.
All this is denied by leaders of these organizations, who claim this is a witch-hunt.
"There are some leaders in NDF who were ex-SIMI activists. But they were in SIMI some 10 or 15 years ago. There is not even one person from SIMI after it was banned, who has joined us," said NDF state president A Sayeed.
"These are wrong allegations. As far as we know, SIMI has stopped functioning in this country. There is no organisation in Kerala that will allow SIMI members to function with them," said Solidarity Students Organisation General Secretary Mujeeb-ur-Rehman.
<b>Indoctrinating youth</b>
The building housing the office of the Solidarity Youth Movement in Kerala's capital
But what do these organisations do? According to Intelligence sources, they are accused of indoctrinating and perhaps more importantly, organising funds through hawala transactions. And their biggest source of money is the huge malayali work force in the middle east.
TIMES NOW learns that after the Mumbai blasts, the police is investigating the export-import deals done by former members of SIMI and their present organisations.
However, when the TIMES NOW team approached the state and central intelligence bureaus, they refused to comment on camera.
The affidavit submitted by the Kerala police's intelligence wing states that SIMI has organised meetings all over the state, for instance, in the Chintavalappu area in Kozhikode where some such meetings are suspected to have been held. The very fact the members of a banned organisation are meeting so freely, points to the fact that both central and state authorities have failed to curb them.
(By Dhanya Rajendran)
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Thursday, July 20, 2006 08:22:31 pm
In TIMES NOW's possession is an exclusive copy of a document, an affidavit submitted by the Kerala police on May 30. 2006 to the Delhi High Court which chronicles how a banned militant outfit seems to be openly thriving in Kerala.
According to the document, the student outfit Students' Islamic Movement of India or SIMI, banned since 2001, is re-grouping under the banner of 12 organisations in the state.
<b>SIMI's growing network</b>
SIMI has, the document states, regrouped under the banner of 12
organisations, including the following:SIMI IN KERALA
<b>⪠The NDF
⪠Islamic Youth Centre
⪠Karuna Foundation
⪠Solidarity Students Movement</b>
All these are headed by former SIMI heads.
These groups together have spread their tentacles across the state, from capital Thiruvananthapuram to Calicut, Kannur and Malapuram.
The report says- "SIMI is re-grouping and mobilisng. Most SIMI members are still holding extremist and exclusivist religious ideals and they join various other organisations...."
In fact TIMES NOW learns that there is a top-secret report by the Home Ministry which indicates that top SIMI leaders in Kerala held fund-raising meetings with international organizations like World Assembly of Muslim Youth.
All this is denied by leaders of these organizations, who claim this is a witch-hunt.
"There are some leaders in NDF who were ex-SIMI activists. But they were in SIMI some 10 or 15 years ago. There is not even one person from SIMI after it was banned, who has joined us," said NDF state president A Sayeed.
"These are wrong allegations. As far as we know, SIMI has stopped functioning in this country. There is no organisation in Kerala that will allow SIMI members to function with them," said Solidarity Students Organisation General Secretary Mujeeb-ur-Rehman.
<b>Indoctrinating youth</b>
The building housing the office of the Solidarity Youth Movement in Kerala's capital
But what do these organisations do? According to Intelligence sources, they are accused of indoctrinating and perhaps more importantly, organising funds through hawala transactions. And their biggest source of money is the huge malayali work force in the middle east.
TIMES NOW learns that after the Mumbai blasts, the police is investigating the export-import deals done by former members of SIMI and their present organisations.
However, when the TIMES NOW team approached the state and central intelligence bureaus, they refused to comment on camera.
The affidavit submitted by the Kerala police's intelligence wing states that SIMI has organised meetings all over the state, for instance, in the Chintavalappu area in Kozhikode where some such meetings are suspected to have been held. The very fact the members of a banned organisation are meeting so freely, points to the fact that both central and state authorities have failed to curb them.
(By Dhanya Rajendran)
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