The Special Task Force (STF) of the Crime Branch, probing the arrest of five operatives of banned Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), is all set to go in for a DNA test of the items used by the five nabbed suspects.
It was planned to send the toothbrushes, towels and other items used by the five which were seized from their rented house in Bhadrak and Rourkela to laboratory for a DNA test in order to get more information about the five. Meanwhile, the STF along with other Central agencies intensified their probe by interrogating the five here.
The Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) is likely to visit the State soon to interrogate the five suspected SIMI operatives after finding their suspected links with a terror outfit in Pakistan. Sheikh Mehboob (26), his mother Nazma Bibi, (60) Amjad Khan (26), Zakir Hussein (33) and Mohammad Salique (32) were arrested following a brief exchange of fire in Rourkela February 17. Apart from the NIA, IB and police of Tamil Nadu and Chhattisgarh, police teams from MP and Telangana have been camping in city to quiz the operatives. Police officers from UP, Kerala and Rajasthan too are likely to visit the soon to elicit information from them about SIMI modules in those States.