The trio – Mohammed Abdul Zahed aka Motu of Moosarambagh, Mohammed Sameeuddin of Malakpet and Maaz Hasan Farooq by Humayun Nagar – caught swooping in before dawn in the residential areas of Old Hyderabad. Four grenades, Rs 40,000 in cash and incriminating documents were seized from the suspects. They were charged with conspiring to assassinate Sangh and BJP members, although this was not part of their confession statement to the state counterintelligence agency and the task force (STF) that broke down the cell. LeT.
They confessed to drawing up a blueprint to cause terror, and to cause panic and discord in the community. They were charged under the Unlawful Activity Prevention Act. FIR names four other suspects: Adil Afroz, Abdul Hadi, Sohail Qureshi and Abdul Kaleem aka Hadi. They are running.
The main mastermind Zahed revealed on Sunday that he had links to the Pakistani spy agency ISI, Lashkar border handlers, and three Hyderabadi fugitives suspected of being terrorists – Farhatullah Ghori, Siddique Bin Osman and Abdul Majeed. These three are believed to be in Pakistan and work for ISI.
An SIT officer said: “Zahed and his team planned to throw grenades at BJP, RSS meetings and bomb Dasara processions to cause terror during the festive season. He also revealed that Pakistani controllers, Ghori, Hanzala and Majeed pumped money to help Zahed recruit special agents and carry out terrorist attacks in Hyderabad. Two other people, Samiuddin and Maaz Hasan, who were arrested on Sunday were Zahed’s recruits.
Zahed has previously been involved in terrorism-related incidents in Hyderabad, including the 2005 suicide bombing of the city police commissioner’s task force office in Begumpet.
Although he was acquitted along with 10 others by a trial, the high court issued a notice of SIT’s plea. Zahed has also been in touch with his brother and Lashkar operator Mohammed Abdul Majeed, who is believed to live in Saudi Arabia after a red corner notice was issued against him for a terrorist plot was dropped. abandoned in Bengaluru.
Another defendant, Maaz Hasan Farooq, was arrested in 2018 in a youth radicalization case and maintains contact with the ISI.
Ghori and two others played a key role in carrying out the 2002 explosions near Sai Baba temple in Dilsukhnagar, the Ghatkopar explosion in Mumbai, the 2005 suicide bombing of the special forces office in Begumpet and also the part of a failed plot to blow up a Ganesha temple in Secunderabad in 2004. Zahed’s second brother, Shahed Bilal, a member of Harkat-ul-Jihad-Islami, is another person charged in the Begumpet bombing. He was shot dead in Karachi.
The STF claimed a suicide bomber named Mohtasim Bilal, a member of the Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami terrorist organization, entered the then commissioner’s task force office. in Begumpet with a backpack stuffed with dynamite and blew himself up, killing a home guard.
The attack was planned to avenge the death of a city youth, Mujahid Saleem Azmi, who was shot by Gujarat police in 2004 outside the DGP office in Lakdikapul, a suburb in Hyderabad. Gujarat police have arrived in Hyderabad to arrest a controversial cleric, Moulana Mohammed Naseeruddin, in connection with the murder of former Gujarat Interior Minister, Haren Pandya.
