Wanted criminals nabbed

Sleuths of the Maharastra police arrested two wanted brothers hailing from Pune who were wanted by the lucknow police in connection with terror links.

Both the brothers who were brought and produced here in a local court on Thursday afternoon, were earlier arrested for facilitating militant groups by supplying them with latest arms and ammunitions as well as explosives. They were now wanted by the lucknow police for more than a last one decade.
Reports said that on June 2, 1999, the sleuths of the Special Task Force acting on a tip off that a gang was active in the state capital and is working as a sleeping module facilitating the militants with sophisticated arms and ammunitions as well as explosives, laid a trap on two of the members in Hazratganj area from lakshmi Guest House from Shahnajef Road.

A bag containing AK-47,ammunitions and explosives were recovered from their possession. They were taken to Hazratganj police station were they revealed their identity as Azzejudeen, a native of Badi Bazar in Pune and Zamil Ahmed, hailing from Nepal. During interrogation the cops learnt of their terror link with Dawood Ibrahim, Choote Shakeel others. later they also arrested six more members of the gang which included two brothers - Allahaudeen and Moinudeen, hailing from Damodary Bazar area of Pune. The others were identified as Tariq Anwar, Kaiser Hassan, Mohamed Usman, and Riyaz.

The cops held them along with others and later all of them were booked under Section 115/121//122/123/333/504/506 IPO (case crime no-511/99) for Waging a war against the government, collecting arms etc with intention of waging war against the country, concealing with facts to facilitate design to wage war against the nation along with making an attempt on the life of STF personnel when they tried to intercept them. Reports said that all the accused were lodged in jail and a charge-sheet against them was also submitted in the court on November 5, 1999, but later some of them including Allahaudeen and Moinudeen managed to get out on bail and once again absconded to evade arrest. After various attempts of the security agencies to held them again went in vein, the local court issued Non-Bailable Warrant (NBW) against them but still the security agencies failed to trace out the duo.

Reports further said that after waiting for more than a decade, the local police contacted the Pune police and sought their help in laying a trap on the accused few months back. They cops at Pune who said to have formed team for the purpose claimed to have achieved success when they traced out the whereabouts of the duo and laid a trap on them on Wednesday morning. later they informed the development to senior officers here at lucknow and brought the duo to the city on Thursday morning. later in the afternoon, Hazratganj police produced both in the court after which they were sent back to jail.