02-10-2008, 01:14 PM
Court extends police custody of LeT suspects
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Davangere, UNI: The Magistrate Jinaralakar also permitted the CoD to conduct more narco analysis tests on the arrested.
The First class Judicial Magistrate court in Honnali in Davangere district on Saturday extended till February 16 the police custody of two suspected terrorists, having links with the banned Lashkar-e-Toaiba (LeT) and ordered that their custody be handed over to CoD which has taken up the investigations.
The Magistrate Jinaralakar also permitted the CoD to conduct more narco analysis tests on the arrested.
<b>Riyazuddin Nasir alias Mohammad Ghouse, an Engineering Diploma drop out from Hyderabad and Asadulla Abubaker, a student in Indian medicine, hailing from Hospet in the state, were arrested by Honnali police on January 11 on charges of possessing a stolen two wheeler from Goa.
Later, during questioning it was found that the duo had terrorist links. They had revealed their plans to trigger blasts in various places in the state and Goa. This included IT majors in Bangalore, temples in Udupi, irrigation dams in Karnataka and famous beaches frequented by foreign tourists in Goa.
Based on their revelations, police also picked up one Mohammad Asif, a final year student in medicine in Hubli, and the trio were linked to banned student organisation SIMI and terror outfit LeT.</b>
The CoD which took custody of Riyazuddin and Asadullah on February two, subjected them to brain mapping, polygraph and narco analysis in Bangalore during the last two days.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Protest against increase in terrorism in state
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Tumkur : The Akhil Bharata Vidyarthi Parishad staged a protest near the Town Hall Circle in Tumkur against the increasing incidence of terrorist activities in the State.
They agitators demanded cleansing of terrorism in the State. ABVP district convener Rayasandra Ravikumar and other office bearers the re-introduction of Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA).
The protesters said that terrorism activities was rampant in recent times and should be destroyed at its roots. Stringent action should be taken against the perpetrators of terrorism and the authorities should not bow down to pressures from any quarters, the activists of ABVPÂ added.
<b>âThe few who are arrested cannot be the only persons behind this widespread network of terrorism and therefore the key persons behind this network should be identified and stringent legal action taken against themâ, they said.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
One more student held for terror link
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<b>Bangalore: The Corps of Detectives and State Intelligence sleuths on Friday, arrested Allah Baksh Yadavada, an MBBS student from KIMS, Hubli, who confessed of his Jehadi ideology and militant training.
He is the second student from the same college, who has been arrested in less than a fortnightâs time. Baksh, who is doing his internship in the Institute, is a classmate and friend of Mohammed Asif, currently in police custody.
âBaksh (24), is the son of a class three employee of the Railways and a resident of Hubli.
[b]During interrogation he revealed that he, along with Asif, had attended a closed door meeting with 20 cadre members of the proscribed organisation, Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), from Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala.</b>
The meeting was at a farmhouse of one Shakeel on Haliyal Road, North Canara, in November last year,â said M R Pujar, IG, CoD who is heading the investigation in the Asif case along with V S DâSouza, SP, State Intelligence and Khod, DySP, CoD.
Shakeel is an electrician from Dharwad. In the meeting the participants reportedly decided to take on Jehad. They discussed the Palestine issue and the holy mosque that was destroyed by the Israelis. They also spoke about the American invasion of Iraq and the Godhra riots.
<b>âThey said they would bring in an Islamic revolution in the world.</b> Baksh is also well known to Adnan, the top SIMI person in South India. Adnan is from Bijapur but had moved to Bangalore of late. He had supplied arms and explosives to the new network of militants and was also funding their activities. <b>He had also given four pistols to Asif, which were kept in his hostel room.</b> Adnan took them back after Riyazuddin Naserâs arrest,â said another officer.
The sleuths also raided Bakshâs house and found a lot of Jehadi literature from there.
<b>Meanwhile, the police have added various Sections: 121 (waging war against government of India), 121A (conspiracy to wage war), 122 (to collect arms and explosives), 124A (sedition), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and other sections of Arms and Explosives Act and Prevention of Unlawful Activities Act.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Terror suspects face narco test again
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Hubli/ Bangalore : Terror suspects Riyazuddin Naser alias Mohammed Ghouse and Asadullah will be subjected to a second round of narcoanalysis in Bangalore on Monday.
The duo was on Saturday further remanded to CoD custody by Honnali JMFC B L Jinralkar till February 16. Later, they were taken to Bangalore.
A CoD team, led by IGP Srikanthappa, produced the duo before the court at 5 am. The CoD police sought the extension of their custody as their narcoanalysis was yet to be completed.
Meanwhile, the CoD personnel in Hubli have intensified the interrogation of Mohammed Asif, a final year MBBS student KIMS here, who has been arrested for his alleged links with Ghouse and Asadullah.
<b>On Saturday, a bomb disposal squad from Bangalore defused a bomb seized from a forest near Halligeri village, about 20 km from Dharwad, two days ago, at the Police Shooting Range on the outskirts of Dharwad City. The squad was led by Inspector Praveen Alva of Bangalore. Another team is expected to arrive to defuse gelatin sticks and wire bombs also seized from the same spot. All these seizures were made on the basis of Mohammed Asifâs revelations.</b>
Meanwhile, the CoD has picked up another person said to be an active member of the proscribed SIMI for interrogation on the basis of Asifâs revelations.
The agency is learnt to have collected a lot of information and documents from the accused about the activities of SIMI in northern Karnataka districts.
<b>At least four students from Bijapur are believed to be part of this network. Of the four, all engineering students, two are from Bijapur city, one from Sindhgi and one from Chadchan.</b>
In Belgaum, a local lodge owner who was picked up by the CoD on Thursday and released later, was on Saturday taken into custody again.
Police sources in Belgaum did not confirm where the hotel owner was being quizzed, but highly placed sources said he had been taken to Dharwad.
The hotel owner allegedly funded and supplied food to those who attended a SIMI meeting at Castlerock, near Goa.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Davangere, UNI: The Magistrate Jinaralakar also permitted the CoD to conduct more narco analysis tests on the arrested.
The First class Judicial Magistrate court in Honnali in Davangere district on Saturday extended till February 16 the police custody of two suspected terrorists, having links with the banned Lashkar-e-Toaiba (LeT) and ordered that their custody be handed over to CoD which has taken up the investigations.
The Magistrate Jinaralakar also permitted the CoD to conduct more narco analysis tests on the arrested.
<b>Riyazuddin Nasir alias Mohammad Ghouse, an Engineering Diploma drop out from Hyderabad and Asadulla Abubaker, a student in Indian medicine, hailing from Hospet in the state, were arrested by Honnali police on January 11 on charges of possessing a stolen two wheeler from Goa.
Later, during questioning it was found that the duo had terrorist links. They had revealed their plans to trigger blasts in various places in the state and Goa. This included IT majors in Bangalore, temples in Udupi, irrigation dams in Karnataka and famous beaches frequented by foreign tourists in Goa.
Based on their revelations, police also picked up one Mohammad Asif, a final year student in medicine in Hubli, and the trio were linked to banned student organisation SIMI and terror outfit LeT.</b>
The CoD which took custody of Riyazuddin and Asadullah on February two, subjected them to brain mapping, polygraph and narco analysis in Bangalore during the last two days.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Protest against increase in terrorism in state
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Feb 9, 2008
Tumkur : The Akhil Bharata Vidyarthi Parishad staged a protest near the Town Hall Circle in Tumkur against the increasing incidence of terrorist activities in the State.
They agitators demanded cleansing of terrorism in the State. ABVP district convener Rayasandra Ravikumar and other office bearers the re-introduction of Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA).
The protesters said that terrorism activities was rampant in recent times and should be destroyed at its roots. Stringent action should be taken against the perpetrators of terrorism and the authorities should not bow down to pressures from any quarters, the activists of ABVPÂ added.
<b>âThe few who are arrested cannot be the only persons behind this widespread network of terrorism and therefore the key persons behind this network should be identified and stringent legal action taken against themâ, they said.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
One more student held for terror link
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Feb 9, 2008
<b>Bangalore: The Corps of Detectives and State Intelligence sleuths on Friday, arrested Allah Baksh Yadavada, an MBBS student from KIMS, Hubli, who confessed of his Jehadi ideology and militant training.
He is the second student from the same college, who has been arrested in less than a fortnightâs time. Baksh, who is doing his internship in the Institute, is a classmate and friend of Mohammed Asif, currently in police custody.
âBaksh (24), is the son of a class three employee of the Railways and a resident of Hubli.
[b]During interrogation he revealed that he, along with Asif, had attended a closed door meeting with 20 cadre members of the proscribed organisation, Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), from Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala.</b>
The meeting was at a farmhouse of one Shakeel on Haliyal Road, North Canara, in November last year,â said M R Pujar, IG, CoD who is heading the investigation in the Asif case along with V S DâSouza, SP, State Intelligence and Khod, DySP, CoD.
Shakeel is an electrician from Dharwad. In the meeting the participants reportedly decided to take on Jehad. They discussed the Palestine issue and the holy mosque that was destroyed by the Israelis. They also spoke about the American invasion of Iraq and the Godhra riots.
<b>âThey said they would bring in an Islamic revolution in the world.</b> Baksh is also well known to Adnan, the top SIMI person in South India. Adnan is from Bijapur but had moved to Bangalore of late. He had supplied arms and explosives to the new network of militants and was also funding their activities. <b>He had also given four pistols to Asif, which were kept in his hostel room.</b> Adnan took them back after Riyazuddin Naserâs arrest,â said another officer.
The sleuths also raided Bakshâs house and found a lot of Jehadi literature from there.
<b>Meanwhile, the police have added various Sections: 121 (waging war against government of India), 121A (conspiracy to wage war), 122 (to collect arms and explosives), 124A (sedition), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and other sections of Arms and Explosives Act and Prevention of Unlawful Activities Act.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Terror suspects face narco test again
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Feb 10, 2008
Hubli/ Bangalore : Terror suspects Riyazuddin Naser alias Mohammed Ghouse and Asadullah will be subjected to a second round of narcoanalysis in Bangalore on Monday.
The duo was on Saturday further remanded to CoD custody by Honnali JMFC B L Jinralkar till February 16. Later, they were taken to Bangalore.
A CoD team, led by IGP Srikanthappa, produced the duo before the court at 5 am. The CoD police sought the extension of their custody as their narcoanalysis was yet to be completed.
Meanwhile, the CoD personnel in Hubli have intensified the interrogation of Mohammed Asif, a final year MBBS student KIMS here, who has been arrested for his alleged links with Ghouse and Asadullah.
<b>On Saturday, a bomb disposal squad from Bangalore defused a bomb seized from a forest near Halligeri village, about 20 km from Dharwad, two days ago, at the Police Shooting Range on the outskirts of Dharwad City. The squad was led by Inspector Praveen Alva of Bangalore. Another team is expected to arrive to defuse gelatin sticks and wire bombs also seized from the same spot. All these seizures were made on the basis of Mohammed Asifâs revelations.</b>
Meanwhile, the CoD has picked up another person said to be an active member of the proscribed SIMI for interrogation on the basis of Asifâs revelations.
The agency is learnt to have collected a lot of information and documents from the accused about the activities of SIMI in northern Karnataka districts.
<b>At least four students from Bijapur are believed to be part of this network. Of the four, all engineering students, two are from Bijapur city, one from Sindhgi and one from Chadchan.</b>
In Belgaum, a local lodge owner who was picked up by the CoD on Thursday and released later, was on Saturday taken into custody again.
Police sources in Belgaum did not confirm where the hotel owner was being quizzed, but highly placed sources said he had been taken to Dharwad.
The hotel owner allegedly funded and supplied food to those who attended a SIMI meeting at Castlerock, near Goa.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->