GULBARGA (KARNATAKA): The Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Sunday took suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba operative, Shami Ahmed Shah, who was arrested by the Karnataka police on Thursday, to Zaheerabad and Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh.

Shah took the team members to the room where he had been living and the Internet centres he used to frequent to send e-mails to his bosses in Pakistan, police sources said.

Additional Superintendent of Police Ravikumar Naik, who heads the SIT, told The Hindu from Zaheerabad that the suspected militant showed SIT members the room he lived in Zaheerabad before coming to Gulbarga.

Except a few papers and some printed material, no incriminating document was found in the room, which Shah left without even collecting the advance money from its owner, Mr. Naik said.

Forced to leave

According to Mr. Naik, the team members collected details regarding Shah's stay in Zaheerabad. The suspected LeT operative was forced to leave Zaheerabad because of the presence of some policemen in the building in which he had taken a room for rent.

The team left for Hyderabad on Sunday evening where they will visit the places where the suspected operative stayed and places he frequented.

The team is likely to visit the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam and the Macherla High Tension Power Grid, which he supposedly surveyed. Shah confessed that he had made an attempt to disrupt the functioning of the power grid, Mr. Naik said.

The SIT has obtained permission from the Karnataka State Forensic Laboratory for the polygraph test and brain mapping of Shah in Bangalore on Wednesday.

Grenades from Pakistan

Meanwhile, the Bomb Disposal Squad from Bangalore, which had defused the two grenades seized from Shah, revealed that the grenades were from Pakistan. The grenades were assembled in Austria and supplied to the Pakistan Army.

E-mails sent and received by Shah in the coded form have provided vital information about the LeT network in different States.

The Central and State intelligence agencies were in constant touch with the district police. According to information received here, a team of senior police officers from Mumbai was likely to visit Gulbarga soon to interrogate Shah.

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