BANGALORE: The Bangalore police have identified three Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) commanders among the Pakistan-based militants who were involved in the Bangalore serial blasts of July 25, during interrogation of the arrested accused.
The interrogation has revealed that Rehan alias Shameem (35), Muslim Basheer (55) and Haroon (35), all LeT commanders in charge of its Gulf operations, were involved in the Bangalore serial blasts. Three other foreign nationals involved in the blasts have been identified as Saleem and Jaheed (55) from Bangladesh and Ali Abdul Azeez Hooti (35) from Oman.
Of the 41 identified accused, ten belonging to the Indian Mujahideen were arrested by Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kerala police in connection with the Bangalore blasts. They are Sarfaraz Nawaz, Abdul Sattar, Jabbar, Mujeeb, Jaleel, Manaf alias Rahis, Fizal, Badruddeen, Sarfuddeen and Sarkaria.
The Bangalore police have also taken into custody Faizal, Nawaz and P B Shabbeer who were earlier arrested by the Kerala police. Also, Aftab alias Abdul Raheem, Fahiz and Fahees, suspects in the Bangalore blasts case, were shot near Pakistan border in Kashmir.
WHO ARE THEY?
LeT member Sarfaraz Nawaz alias Seju alias Hakeem Sarfoor hailing from Ernakulam in Kerala, was settled in Oman before he was arrested by the RAW. He is said to be the main financier of the blasts and is a top catch for the police.
CAM Basheer (55), from Kerala and now settled in Sharjah, is a former two-time president of SIMI. An aeronautical engineer, he is said to have profound knowledge of the Bhagavadgeeta, the Upanishads, Bible and the Quran. He was administrator of an institute in Sharjah.
The Pakistani national Wali alias Rehan alias Shameem (35), an LeT member is in charge of the Gulf region.
Muslim Basheer (55), now settled in Ruwi area of Muscat was the chief executive of HTV worldwide broadcasting.
Another Pakistani Haroon (35), was taking care of Haj travel packages in Moon Travels in Muscat. Jaheed of Bangladesh is a hawala agent.
Bangalore city witnessed serial bomb blasts on Friday, July 25, 2008
There were eight blasts between 1.30 pm and 2 pm along the road side starting from Madivala checkpost to Kengeri on Mysore road
Sudha (35) wife of Muniraju of Hassan was killed and eight persons suffered injures in the serial blasts
The damage to property was very minimal. An unexploded IED found on the next day near Forum Mall in Koramangala was defused by the bomb disposal squad.
The Bangalore city police registered nine cases in this regard
The investigation team visited various parts of the country, particularly Kerala and Andhra Pradesh, interrogated suspected accused and arrested 10 terrorists who are in judicial custody
In the Madivala case, the probe team has seized 80 documents, examined and collected evidences from 189 witnesses which include injured persons, technical experts and police officers
Similarly in Koramangala PS case, the team has seized 61 documents and examined 157 witnesses. In all the chargesheets run into 718 and 568 pages respectively.