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Terror suspect’s records checked

Staff Reporter

Karnataka police team to be in Kozhikode for two more days

Kozhikode: A Corps of Detectives team of the Karnataka police is here to examine the antecedents of Mohammed Kammukutty, alias Yahya Khan, arrested in Bangalore in February. The team arrived on Sunday and will be here for two more days.

The three-member team, led by the Deputy Superintendent of Police Abdul Qayyum, interrogated his father, Beerankutty, and his wife, Fareeda, at Mukkom.

Kammukutty, who is from Mukkom, graduated in electrical and electronics engineering from the then Regional Engineering College, Kozhikode (now a National Institute of Technology), in 1996.

The team seized copies of his SSLC book, a gazette notification about the change of his name and an old issue of the mouthpiece Vivekam of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) from his house.

Official sources said the team visited some places at Arekkode and Murkkanad in Malappuram district and the Passport Office at Eranhipalam to verify his records. It is planning to check his conduct at the engineering college.

A senior professor said the records maintained at the college showed that Kammukutty was a disciplined student and his conduct was exemplary. He was always dynamic on the campus.

A month ago, before his arrest, Kammukutty visited his house and attended the marriage of his relative in Kozhikode. Since 2006, he had been under the surveillance of the Karnataka police.

For the past eight years, Kammukutty has been in Bangalore. The police say he had attempted to motivate the youth to join SIMI and had maintained a blog and kept contacts with like-minded activists through e-mail.

Fareeda, along with their children, Fatih, Mueeza and Muzafer, reached here a week after the arrest. The family had been living in Bangalore.

She had said that her husband was a victim of conspiracy hatched by his business rivals in the U.S. He was framed after he decided to quit a company. He had been a devout Muslim.

Kammukutty joined a software firm in Bangalore after he passed the BE examination with distinction. Later, he joined GE Health System, which sacked him for allegedly stealing business data, modules and software of the company.

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