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SIMI members in police custody

Staff Reporter

`Objectionable' literature recovered

MUMBAI: Two members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), arrested in connection with the Mumbai blasts case over the weekend, were remanded to police custody on Monday.

Ehetesham Kutubuddin Siddique, 25, was arrested on Saturday and Danish Riaz Shaukat Ali Sheikh, 28, on Sunday under Sections 10 and 13 of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act for being members of a banned organisation.

The police told the court that they recovered several hundred copies of `objectionable' literature pertaining to Jihad and SIMI and donation receipt books.

The two are already facing a case registered in 2001 under similar charges.

According to the remand application, Danish was working as a sub-editor in the Urdu Times daily and knows English, Urdu, Persian and Arabic. The police said they suspected that there were over 50-60 active SIMI members in the State and needed to interrogate the two for information.

9 held in Jabalpur

UNI reports from Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh):

Police arrested nine SIMI activists here on Sunday in connection with the July 11 Mumbai blasts.

The SIMI activists were arrested during a special drive carried out on the basis of information about their presence in Gohalpur and Hanumantal areas. `Tarhik' and `Moment' books were seized from them, City Superintendent of Police Rakesh Singh said.

A mobile phone, belonging to SIMI activist Imran Ansari, arrested in Khandwa recently, was seized from Sarfaraz.

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