A team of officials of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), country’s elite foreign intelligence agency, on Thursday started interrogating the five SIMI operatives after finding their suspected links with a terror outfit in Pakistan.
Sources said the operatives told the interrogators that they donated half of the money which they looted from banks for jehadi purpose. It had been revealed during the interrogation by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) that the four of the male SIMI members, who were arrested from Rourkela on February 17, are not as simple as they appear.
The NIA and Intelligence Bureau (IB) suspected their links with a Pakistani agency.
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. They were involved in Khandwa jailbreak, a series of bank loots, terror activities and murders of cops in different States.