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Police sceptical of Nasir’s claims

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: Police are sceptical of the claims being made by Raziuddin Nasir, a Hyderabadi terror suspect arrested in Karnataka, in connection with various terrorist modules and operations in the city.

Some police officials feel revelation made by him during narco-analysis test that a HuJI terror cell commander Mohammed Abdul Shahid had come to India, along with 15 other Pakistani terrorists, is unbelievable. Nasir reportedly stated that Shahid had smuggled 100 kg of RDX into the country.

He also maintained that Shahid had managed to bring in rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) into the country. “All these statements have no basis. No other suspect picked up in terrorism-related cases so far has at least hinted about this,” a senior police officer said. The Hyderabadi reportedly told interrogators that while he planted the IED at Lumbini Park, his associate kept another IED at the Gokul chat triggering blasts on August 25 last. Police sources say that they could gather some evidence substantiating his stay in the city before twin blasts but his involvement in the explosions is yet to be ascertained. Investigations by the police revealed that Shahid did not enter the country before or after the twin blasts. An officer remarked that from smuggling the explosives into India to making the bombs and triggering the blasts in Mecca masjid, the sequence of events could be reconstructed clearly in the masjid blast case. The accused were also identified in that case but it was not so in the case of twin blasts, he said.

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