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Who called Yahya Khan from the college phone?

Munavar Pasha

HASSAN: It is still a mystery as to who made 15 calls from the college telephone and six calls from mobile number 9986846146 to terror suspect Yahya Kutti (Khan) of Kerala and Bijapur-based Adnan as the mobile phone belongs to Munavar Pasha, principal of Islamia Arabic College in Alur.

The college runs classes from primary to the Pre-University level and has 250 students. Classes are conducted in Urdu, which is the first language.

When the Corps of Detectives team checked the call details of Yahya Khan for one year, it was revealed that 15 calls had been received from the college telephone and six from the mobile phone that belonged to the principal. Calls were also made to another suspected terrorist, Adnan. Six students from Bijapur are studying in the college. Under this background, the CoD team, led by Inspector Paramesh, questioned Mr. Pasha, his staff and some students.

When presspersons visited the college on Saturday, a visibly annoyed Mr. Pasha admitted that the CoD team had spoken to them.

“We assured them that we will cooperate with them in the investigation,” he said. Mr. Pasha said that calls had been made to Yahya from his mobile and that he did not know who had made the calls. The calls were “perhaps made by his students.” When presspersons wanted to know how students could get access to the principal’s mobile phone, he said that sometimes, parents called their children on his mobile phone and that he had allowed students to use his mobile phone to call their parents.

The CoD team visited the house of Mansoor, a clerk who was working in this college. Mansoor is absconding ever since the arrest of Yahya. People reportedly told the CoD team that Mansoor was staying in a room near the college and that he was not seen since three months. However, Mr. Pasha denied that Mansoor was working in his college.

Mr. Pasha said since the college admitted students from all over India, advertisements had been released to newspapers and in them the mobile and telephone numbers of the college had been given.

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