Finally the SDJM, Rourkela allowed the NIA-Bhopal to take three arrested SIMI terrorists, Amjad Khan, Sk Meheboob and Zakir Hussain, in remand for 15 days for further investigations.
It may be noted here that after 13 days remand, the Crime Branch STF had produced all the 5 SIMI terrorists Amjad, Saliq, Meheboob, Zakir Hussain and one lady Nazma Bee (mother of Meheboob) on Tuesday before the SDJM, Rourkela.
In the mean time NIA-Pune, NIA-Bhopal, Special Police-Pune, MP Police, Maharastra Police and Telengana police had appealed for remand. Putting the hearing on remand appeals for Wednesday, the court sent them all to 14 days judicial custody.
Hearing on the remand appeal, the court allowed NIA-Bhopal to take three of them for 15 days remand and other two will remain in the Rourkela Special Jail.
According to Khandwa SP, in 2009 they were involved in triple killing of ATS constable Sitaram Yadav, a bank manager and an advocate in Khandwa district. Their leader Abu Faisal alias doctor has already been sentenced to life in the case by a Bhopal court last month. They also committed bank dacoities in 2010 and 2011 in Dewas, Itarasi and Katni, besides looting gold worth crores of rupees from Mannapuram Gold Finance Company in Bhopal in 2011.
They were arrested by MP ATS in June 2011 in Bhopal and lodged in different jails of MP since then. While brought to Khandwa for trial of a case, they had escaped from Tantya Bheel Jail in Khandwa in the wee hours on October 1, 2014 after attacking
two cops outside the jail and looting the two service rifles of the two cops for which they were booked for attempt to murder.