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Maudany to be taken to Kodagu

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Even as the Bangalore City Police continued their interrogation of People's Democratic Party (PDP) chairman Abdul Nasir Maudany on Thursday, they decided to take him to Kodagu as part of their investigation into his alleged role in the Bangalore serial blasts case.

The police say Mr. Maudany called up Tadiyandavide Nasir, 33, the prime accused from Kerala, and then met him at Madapur in Kodagu. He also allegedly visited Hosathota and other places to hatch the conspiracy.

On the second day of the interrogation, senior police officers specifically asked Mr. Maudany about the conspiracy leading to the blasts in July 2008 that killed a woman at Madivala and injured 20 others. They also pressed him to come clean on his relationship with Tadiyandavide Nasir, who was the south Indian commander of the Pakistan-based terror outfit LeT. While the police told Mr. Maudany that he had conspired with Tadiyandavide Nasir and others, Mr. Maudany denied the charge. Though he admitted to talking to Nasir on the phone, he said there was no reference in their conversations to “any anti-national or anti-social activity.”

The investigators, however, say Mr. Maudany visited several places in Kodagu where Nasir was working as an assistant on a ginger plantation. Throughout the interrogation, Mr. Maudany, who appeared calm and collected keeping a Koran with him, denied all charges.

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