Anti-Terrorists Squad of the UP Police would take help of Intelligence Bureau to expedite their hunt for hardcore militants of Indian Mujhadin (IM) including Thasin aka Monu, and Bakas, whose name came up for serial blasts in Patna just before Narendra Modi’s rally and were also wanted in connection with serial blasts in Varanasi.
A team also left for Patna in this regard. Besides, the Mumbai ATS which is camping here in search of IM militant Afzal Usmani, who has escaped from a Mumbai court on September 20 last, get success when they arrested from Indo-Nepal border at Rupiyadiha in Bahraich on Monday morning.
Giving above information here on Monday evening, IG (law and order) RK Vishwakarma said that they had inputs that Monu and Bakas, the two IM Militants were doing recce to do some serial blasts around lucknow so they were already looking for them. However, after serial blast in Patna reportedly executed by the two, they sent the ATS team to expedite their hunt for the above two along with two other IM militants for whom they were looking in connection with serial blasts in Varanasi.
He claimed that they will also take help of IB sleuths as well of National Investigation Agency (NIA) in this regard.Vishwakarma also confirmed that in another development, Mumbai ATS team held IM militant Afzal Usmani from Indo-Nepal border at Rupiyadiha in Bahraich on Monday morning. Usmani, hailing from Ferozpur locality of Madhuban in Mau district of the State had escaped from custody of Maharastra police in September. He was accused in Surat and Ahmedabad blast cases.
He slipped from custody when he was taken to be produced in Special Court of Maharastra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) from Taloja Jail in Raigad district. He was a hotelier before he entered into terror activities. He was believed to handle finances of IM group. Sources said that Usmani arrests was materialised after his nephew Javed Nurullah Hussain Khan, who had assisted in his escape from Mumbai, was picked up by the ATS on last Friday.
He revealed that Usmani took shelter in Tatera hamlet of Bahraich district here in UP with his relatives. The ATS rushed to Bahraich and intercepted Usmani when he was trying to flee to Nepal through Rupiyadiha railway station on Monday morning. Since his escape, Usmani said to have traveled to Indore, Bhopal, and Jabalpur with Javed, son of his sister Safia Khatoon, hailing from Dharavi, before he reached Bahraich.Meanwhile RK Vishwakarma said that in wake of serial blasts just before Modi’s rally in Patna, state government decided to seal all the venues 5 days prior to rally of big leaders of any political parties.
He said that 10 companies of Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) as well as senior officers, sub-inspectors, anti-mine vehicles, bullet-proof vehicles, anti-sabotage team, bomb detection and disposal squad will be sent to the venue to sensitise it before the rally would start. This step had already started from Samajwadi Party rally in Azamgarh on Tuesday. He said that they will also exchange information with the Intelligence agencies including IB to avert any kind of subversive activities.