The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has chargesheeted Manzar Imam, an accused in the Vagamon SIMI camp case, in another case for his links with the Indian Mujahideen (IM) in New Delhi.
The NIA filed a supplementary chargesheet against Manzar Imam and three other senior IM operatives, including its co-founder Yasin Bhatkal, at the NIA Special Court, Patiala House, New Delhi, last week.
The supplementary chargesheet has been filed in the case in which the NIA probed the larger conspiracy of the IM to commit terror acts across the country.
The accused in the chargesheet were Ahmed Siddibappa alias Yasin Bhatkal alias Imran of Bhatkal, Uttar Kannada district, Karnataka; Asadullah Akhtar alias Haddi of Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh; Manzer Imam alias Jameel of Ranchi, Jharkhand, and Ujjair Ahmed alias Ozair Ahmed, Doranda, Ranchi, Jharkhand.
According to the NIA, the accused executed several blast cases in which more than 150 people were killed.
The major bomb blast incidents were in Hyderabad (2007), Jaipur (2008), Delhi (2008), Ahmedabad and Surat (2008), German Bakery (2010), Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore (2010); Jama Masjid (2010), Sheetlaghat (2010), Mumbai (2011) and Dilsukhnagar, Hyderabad (2013).
Yasin Bhatkal was involved in identifying, motivating, recruiting and training youth for terror activities. He was responsible for the IM bases in Darbhanga, Ranchi, Samstipur, Goa and Mangalore.
He had also received training in Pakistan for 60 days. Manzar Imam and Ujjair Ahmed, both hailing from Ranchi, Jharkhand, were charged for their role in the conspiracy to commit terrorist acts, for harbouring IM terrorists, giving support and raising funds for the terrorist organisation. Bhatkal and Tehseen alias Tabrezescaped to Nepal following the arrest of Manzar Imam from Ranchi. Yasin Bhatkal crossed the border on the same day when Imam was arrested by the NIA and Jharkhand police from Kanke, near Ranchi, on March 3, 2013.