An extensive search operation has been launched by the city police officials for the last couple of days across the city after Hyderabad figured among the few cities to get specific alert to be on the toes on eve of Independence Day. “Police additionally apprehended two Bangladeshis alongside with one Myanmar national who have been illegally staying in the town with out legitimate paperwork”, a senior Task Force officer informed PTI. He was allegedly in touch with Jabbar, a leader of terror group Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami (HuJI) in Bangladesh.
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Police seized four Indian passports, one Bangladeshi passport, nine cell phones, SIM cards and about 100 voter identity and Aadhaar cards collected from various people to obtain passports.
“Later, Nasir came to India through Bangladesh-India border in 2010 and stayed in different places of the country”, the joint commissioner of Indian police said. He admitted to have arrived in Hyderabad ahead of Dilsukhnagar blasts to manipulate the process to acquire passports by using fake identification cards.
Among the arrested persons was 53-year-old Mohammed Nasir, a Pakistani, accused of helping Zia-ur-Rahman alias Waqas, member of Indian Mujahideen module responsible for the twin blasts in Dilsukhnagar here in 2013, flee the country.
The Pakistani national lived in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana before coming to Hyderabad in March this year.
In Hyderabad, Nasir came in contact with Sohail Parvez and Masood Ali. Police quoted Masood as saying that he had provided passports for job aspirants from Bangladesh and Myanmar to travel to Arab countries.
“They said they were sending people for employment but we suspect that the motive is more than that because of the suspicious activities of Mohammed Nazeer”, he said. Nasir received illegal immigrants said to be from Bangladesh and Myanmar and provided them with shelter at the residence of Masood.
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However we did not find anything suspicious in connection with the woman.
