Sunday 21 July 2013

Maqbool of IM revealed his plans to attack Bodh Gaya

IU Sudhakar Reddy
Indian Mujahideen terror suspect Syed Maqbool who was freed from Charlapally jail in the city on remission (good conduct) has revealed during his arrest by Delhi police in October 2012 that IM was planning to carry out attacks on Bodh Gaya. Maqbool told interrogators then IM wants to take revenge against attacks on Muslims in Myanmar. Maqbool was also questioned during recent twin blasts of Dilshuknagar revealed the same to the cops.

Syed Maqbool alias Zuber, a former convict was picked up by the Delhi police with the assistance of counter intelligence sleuths from  Shaheen Nagar in October 2012. The key allegation by Delhi police against him was he was planning a suicide bomb attack in Bodh Gaya in Bihar to avenge attacks on Muslims in Myanmar, and also imparted training to those responsible for a couple of low-intensity bomb blasts in Pune in 2012/
It is alleged that in July 2012, Maqbool aided other IM terror suspects to do a recce of Dilkushnagar, Begum Bazaar and Abids in Hyderabad. He was said to be acting on the instructions of the most wanted terror suspect, Riyaz Bhatkal.

Maqbool, son of Syed Haji, was part of the notorious Azam Ghori terror module in the city. He is 35 years old, has two children and shuttles between Hyderabad and his hometown of Satamnagar in Dharmabad near Nanded in Maharashtra.
Maqbool was convicted for the murder of one Krishna Moorthy in 1999 in Bodhan, Nizamabad, and sentenced to life, but was released from jail in October 2009 after commutation of his sentence.
The police found that for each operation, four separate cells operated. A top source of the home department said, “A recce will be conducted by one group. Another group plans it. Bomb-making is done by a third group.  For execution, there will be a separate group. Maqbool was part of the recce group.”

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