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SIMI activists produced before court

Manas Dasgupta

AHMEDABAD: Four activists of the Students Islamic Movement of India, brought here from Madhya Pradesh jails for questioning in connection with the Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts, were produced before court on Saturday.

Kamruddin Nagori, brother of the former SIMI chief Safdar Nagori; Ameel Pervez, believed to be among the top brass of the outfit; Sivli Abdul Karim, and Hafiz Hussain, said to be the chief of its Karnataka operations, were produced before metropolitan magistrate J. K. Pandya, as required under a transit warrant.

They will remain in police custody for a day and will be produced before the court along with Safdar Nagori on Sunday. Safdar, lodged in the Rewa jail in Madhya Pradesh, was being flown in here. The police will seek 14 days’ remand for the five as it did for the 10 others, including the “mastermind” Abdul Bashar Qasmi, arrested earlier in connection with the blasts.

Deputy Police Commissioner (crime branch) Abhay Chudasma said the police were confident of securing vital information from Safdar and others not only on the Ahmedabad blasts but also on other serial blasts in different parts of the country.

Meanwhile, a homoeopath practitioner, Sadaf Panwala, was arrested from the Taiwada locality in Vadodara on Saturday. He was believed to have had close links with another blast accused, Usman Agarbattiwala, who lived in the same neighbourhood and whose house was alleged to have been used for manufacturing the bombs used in the Ahmedabad blasts and planted in Surat.

In Broach, the police arrested owners of five houses, where 34 Bangladeshi infiltrators were illegally lodged. The houses included the one in which Sajid Mansuri, arrested earlier in connection with the blasts, had taken on rent for about two months prior to the serial blasts and where the cars, stolen from Navi Mumbai and converted into car bombs, were kept hidden.

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