February
26, 2008 Bangalore Police
Looking for
12 SIMI-Linked Techies
Bangalore
The Karnataka police are looking for at least 12 techies in the city
and other parts of the state believed to be linked to the banned
Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).
The police have, however, denied reports in local media that two
suicide bombers have sneaked into the city via Nepal. A section of
the media said the information was provided to the Bangalore police
by their counterparts in Hyderabad.
"We have no such information," Bangalore City Police Commissioner
Neelam Achutha Rao told reporters Tuesday.
Information about the links of several techies with the SIMI was
provided by Yahya Khan alias Kammukutty, a software engineer from
Kerala arrested last Thursday for suspected involvement with terror
groups and the SIMI.
The police declined to give the number of people named by Yahya Khan
or details about them. Police sources, however, said they were
looking for about 12 techies.
Meanwhile, the police have received court permission to subject
Yahya Khan, 32, to polygraphy test, brain mapping and narco-analysis
to extract further information about his activities and his
associates.
One of his associates, Syed Sameer, an aluminium contractor who is
said to be involved in the Surat riots and was out on bail, was
arrested from Guruppana Palya, a thickly populated area in
Bangalore, Monday night. Sameer was reporting to the police every
month as required by his bail condition but failed to do so in
February.
He was seen with Yahya Khan on whom police were keeping a watch for
several months on information that he headed the SIMI in Karnataka
till it was banned.
Yahya hails from Mukkom, 30 km east of Kozhikode. A computer and
some "jihadi" literature were seized from his house in Guruppana
Palya, which has substantial Muslim population. Sameer also resided
in the same area.
Guruppana Palya is one of the many localities along the Bannerghatta
Road where leading IT companies like IBM, Oracle and Honeywell have
offices. The campus of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, is
just three km away.
According to the police, Yahya Khan came to Bangalore about eight
years back and first worked with Tata Infotech and later with GE,
from where he was sacked because of his suspicious behaviour. Since
then, he was running a software business from his residence.
Yahya, married with three children, was arrested on the basis of the
information provided by another terror suspect, Mohammed Asif, a
final year medical student detained last month in the north
Karnataka town of Hubli.
Asif is also suspected to have links with the SIMI, which officials
say was active in the Guruppana Palya area where it had an office
till it was banned.
Besides Asif, the police have detained Asadullah Abubacker, a first
year student of ayurvedic medicine, and Mohammed Ghouse alias
Riyazuddin Nasir, son of a cleric in Hyderabad.
Abubacker and Nasir were arrested in early January from Honnali in
the central Karnataka district of Davangere. Their interrogation led
to Asif being picked up.
All three have been subjected to narco-analysis, polygraph and brain
mapping tests.
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