Mangalore: Judicial Custody for Terror Suspects; Handed Over to the Mumbai Police
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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore
Mangalore, Oct 5: The terror suspects arrested on Friday October 3, have been remanded to the judicial custody till October 17.
Four persons were taken into custody by the police in and around the city on Friday. They were produced before the court in the city on Saturday October 4.
They are handed over to the Mumbai police for further interrogation on Saturday evening, police sources informed.
Mohammed Ali (56), resident of Mukkacheri, Jawed Ali (20), student of Quranic studies in Ullal, Naushad (25), a resident of Subhashnagar engaged in construction work, and Ahmed Bawa (33), a resident of Haleangady, engaged in petty business, were taken into custody on Friday, on the suspicion of having connections with terrorists. The Mumbai police and the Anti-Naxal Force (ANF) had also participated with the district police, in the operation launched for taking the accused into custody.
Meanwhile, police sources have added, that the operation against the terror suspects will be continued in the district in the coming days.
Meanwhile, Heenaz, the elder daughter of Mohammed Ali, said, “The moment the police barged into our house they began asking us about the whereabouts of Ahmed Bawa.”
‘Innocent’
Claiming that her father was innocent she said that he was taken away by the police when he told them that he knew Ahmed Bawa. She said that her brother Jawed Ali was picked up when he told the police that he could take them to the house of Naushad, who in turn could lead them to Ahmed Bawa. Heenaz’s version of the events leading to the arrest of Ahmed Bawa matches with that of the police’s which was made public at a press conference on Friday.
Interestingly, most of the CDs in a black case that were displayed by the police along with the recovered items on Friday featured Zakir Naik, a medical doctor turned Islamic scholar. The CDs bore titles such as “Similarities between Hinduism and Islam”, “Similarities between Islam and Christianity”, “Universal Brotherhood”, “Islam and Secularism” and “Religion in the right perspective”.
Heenaz claimed that all those CDs had spiritual content and they had nothing to do with violent Jihad.
She also claimed that her father and brother were steeped in the study of scriptures of various religions. “They are secular people,” she added.
A special squad of the police from Mumbai and Mangalore are searching for Riyaz Ismail Shabandri of Bhatkal, who is suspected to have links with the alleged terrorists arrested after the recent serial bomb blasts in various parts of the country. Riyaz is also suspected to have links with Naushad, who was arrested in Ullal on Friday.
Riyaz is said to be in Pakistan.
The police visited the house of Riyaz’s father in-law at Azadnagar in Bhatkal and his house at Tenginagundi Cross near Bhatkal to collect more information.
A team of Corps of Detectives is also in Bhatkal.
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