HYDERABAD: Fifteen-years-ago when Farhatullah Ghori fled his house in Hyderabad for Saudi Arabia and subsequently to Dubai and Pakistan, the Andhra Pradesh police along with help from the Intelligence Bureau (IB) made all possible efforts to at least obtain his photograph to know how he looks like.
Till date, the agencies remained unsuccesful but continued to make efforts through various channels. Now, even the hope of getting his photograph has faded away. Farhatullah Ghori alias Abu Sufiyan, who masterminded the Sai Baba Temple blast at Saroornagar, then the Task Fo rce office bomb blast besides the failed assassination bid on senior BJP leader N Indrasena Reddy, has undergone several plastic surgeries to change his appearance.
Top sources disclosed to Express that Farhatullah, who used to reside at Kurmaguda here, has undergone several plastic surgeries in Dubai.
“This aspect came to light recently following disclosures made by his brother Shaukatullah Ghori who was nabbed today,’’ sources said. Farhatullah Ghori is a key operative of Jaishe- Mohammed (JeM). They further said that a team of doctors, who are performing plastic surgeries on several top aides of gangster Dawood Ibrahim in Dubai, are the doctors who did plastic surgery for Farhatullah Ghori.
“Over the last 10 years, Farhat has made a name for himself within JeM and runs a major network of financing terror besides motivating and recruiting Muslim youth. The available information is that he underwent surgeries at least six times to evade Indian Intelligence agencies,’’ they said adding that it may now be impossible to even know how he looks like, leave alone nabbing him. “We never know he may be walking in front of us,’’ they remarked.
Farhatullah, a close follower of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Moulana Masood Azhar, was a member of the Old-City-based fundamentalist outfit, Darsgah-Jihad-O-Shahadat (DJS).
“Though he is not directly involved in any terror attacks, he masterminds them sitting abroad. The JeM has given the task of financing the trips of Muslim youth to Dubai (and then motivate them on arrival) besides funding terror attacks in various parts of the country, particularly Hyderabad and organising logistics using local network.
“He is in constant touch with some people here over e-mail and chat. But whenever we tried to raid a few internet centres on specific information, we could not find anything. The messages are typed on the screen on one particular e-mail ID and the same is viewed by the person sitting abroad using the same ID and password,’’ sources said.
His two brothers -- Hashmathullah Ghori and Azmathullah Ghori -- are all based either in Dubai or Saudi Arabia.
Another brother, Rafatullah Ghori is a teacher in a school at Nampally while the fourth brother, Shaukatullah Ghori was nabbed today for his alleged role in the terror attack in Akshardham Temple in Gujarat.