Statewide raids in prison on Sunday not only revealed that how the inmates were freely operating their gangs or remaining in touch with their family members through mobile phones and were also having drugs, but what put both the intelligence agencies as well as organizations working on terror modules on their toes is recovery of maps, and electronic gadgets from possession of a murder accused lodged in District Jail at Moradabad.
The maps were reportedly a layout design of Presidents’ House while the electronic gadgets contained design and pictures of outposts and camps of Border Security Force (BSF) mainly operating in North-East. It may be mentioned that just in last week, subversive forces ambushed security forced in Manipur killing 18 jawans. District Magistrate of Moradabad, Deepak Agarwal, when contacted on Monday, refused to give any details of the recovery but confirmed that some objectionable items regarding security threats has been recovered so a probe has been ordered.
Sources said that the district administration had also passed on the information about recovery both to the National Investigation Agency as well as Anti-Terrorists Squad (ATS), the two agencies of Centre and State which were working on sleeping modules and other terror activities which the subversive forces are trying to execute in order to disturb peace. The sleuths of the Intelligence agencies including that of Intelligence Bureau, along with teams of NIA and ATS had reportedly grilled the inmate to extract some actionable inputs.
Sources confirmed that during raid by the local administration at District Jail in Moradabad in Sunday afternoon, the team members recovered maps of the Rashtrapati Bhawan and pen drives along with chips containing details of the BSF outposts in Dimapur in Assam. The accused Siddiq (26), hailing from West Bengal and from whose bag the articles were recovered was in jail for the past four years and is computer literate. Arrested in connection with a murder case reportedly registered in Sambhal district, Siddiq, was working in the jail hospital presently. During the raids, the laminated maps, 3 diaries and several pen drives and chips were recovered from his possession. All the items have been sent for testing. The diaries have words written in Bengali and Chinese languages.