With news about two activists of banned Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) having gunned down in Telangana State, a team of Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of MP police has left to confirm the news. Notably, they have the fingerprints of the activists. The team of ATS has kept those to match with the fingerprints of the deceased. Soon after the news reached Bhopal, a high-level meeting of senior police officials was held at the PHQ. Addl DG of Intelligence wing Sarabjeet Singh and Sanjeev Shami, who heads the ATS, attended the meeting.
Besides, the State police officials are also on the lookout for the associates of the deceased who are still at large. These two activists are learnt to have been identified as Ejaz Udddin of Kareli in Narsinghpur district and Aslam of Khandwa district. It was reported from Telangana that they are out of those five SIMI activists who had fled away from Khandwa district jail in October, 2013.
Notably, six SIMI activists Amjad, Doctor Abu Faizal, Zakir, Ejaz Uddin, Aslam and Mehboob alias Guddu were caught on the charge of murdering STF personnel Sitaram Yadav and were facing trials in the court. The hearings were completed and the case was slated for verdict, when they managed to flee from the jail.