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Saturday, Feb 11, 2006

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Need for enhanced vigilance at Tihar

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Going by the purported disclosures made by the alleged Al Badr militant, Irshad Ali, who along with his accomplice was arrested by the Special Cell on Thursday, senior police officers feel that vigilance at Tihar Central Jail should be enhanced to block this channel of recruitment undertaken easily by various terrorist outfits.

`Money offered'

During interrogation, Irshad allegedly disclosed that it was during a visit to Tihar Jail, where his brother Naushad was lodged on charges of his links with the militant outfit, Harkat-ul-Ansar, he came across one Sajjad, a resident of Srinagar, who offered him huge amount of money against his "services" to Al Badr. Irshad agreed to meet the then Al Badr chief Wasim Bari in Kashmir and began working for the outfit. The police suspect that there are several others like Sajjad who keep a track of those visiting Tihar to meet the inmates.

Over 40 militants from J&K are presently lodged in Tihar. Though the authorities have a list of those who frequently meet them, the police feel that there is need for an enhanced surveillance mechanism at the jail premises to keep a close watch on suspected agents of various terrorist outfits whose main job is to rope in new faces to spread the network of terror in Delhi and other parts of the country.

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