KOCHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is busy interrogating Indian Mujahideen (IM) founder-member Abdul Subhan Qureshi, who is an accused in the 2007 Wagamon SIMI camp case. The agency took him into custody on Monday with the permission of the NIA Court and will return him on Friday.
According to sources, the NIA took Qureshi to many places as part of the probe. He was also quizzed about how the SIMI training camp in Wagamon was funded.
“Since he was the treasurer of SIMI when the Wagamon camp was held in 2007, he knew the funding sources for organising the camp. The NIA is also interrogating his current association with IM leadership,” sources said.A native of Maharashtra, Qureshi was arrested from New Delhi in January when he returned from Saudi Arabia with a mission to revive IM. He played a crucial role in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts. He is wanted by various state agencies for terrorism-related cases in Bengaluru, Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
Qureshi was brought to Kochi as part of the Wagamon SIMI camp case last month and has been lodged at Viyyoor Central Jail.The SIMI camp was held at Thangalpara near Wagamon in December 2007. Recently, the NIA Court had sentenced 18 accused persons to seven years’ imprisonment and acquitted 17 others in the case.