வங்கிகொள்ளையடிக்கும் சிமி ஜிகாதிகள்

சிமி அமைப்பினரும் இந்திய முஜாகிதீன் அமைப்பினரையும் தொடர்ந்ததில் அவர்கள் பல இடங்களில் வங்கிகொள்ளைகளில் ஈடுபட்டிருப்பது கண்டுபிடிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

இந்துக்களின் பணத்தை கொள்ளையடித்து இந்துக்களுக்கு எதிரான ஜிகாதுக்காக செலவழிப்பது என்று இருந்திருக்கிறார்கள்.

இந்த சிமி இயக்கத்தின் தலைவராக இருந்தவர் ஜவஹிருல்லா. இப்போது மமக என்ற தீவிரவாத இஸ்லாமிய கட்சியை நடத்துகிறார்.

SIMI arrests solve loot cases


Operation Vijay — the crackdown on the Indian Mujahideen (IM) and the outlawed Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) — has had an unexpected fallout. Five bank robberies have been solved by the Madhya Pradesh Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS). Eight arrested men have confessed to robbing two banks in De was and one each in Itarsi, Jaora and Piplyamandi, said ATS officers. The robberies were meant to raise funds for a regrouping of the IM — recruiting new members, renting new hideouts, holding meetings, training youths and publication of literature, said Vipin Maheshweri, inspector general, ATS.

The ATS had made the arrests on Sunday. Four of the men were arrested from the Habibganj railway station in Bhopal — Abu Faizal, Ikrar, Mehboob and Ezazuddin. Four others were held during a raid in Jabalpur —Shaikh Mujeeb, Aslam, Habeeb and Sajid.


On Monday, a local court remanded Faizal, Ikrar, Mehboob and Ezazuddin in the custody of the ATS till June 17. A team of National Investigating Agency (NIA) will be in Bhopal by Tuesday to interrogate the men in connection with several other cases.

Raids are also being conducted to get evidence of the IM’s regrouping, said ATS officials. The ATS and intelligence agencies in Gujarat, Maharasthra, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan have been alerted.

The Uttar Pradesh ATS has been alerted about the regrouping of SIMI activists on the basis of information collected from one Zakir Hussain, who was arrested near the Rathlam railway station on Friday.

A surveillance of Hussain’s telephonic conversation with operatives of SIMI and the IM revealed that the groups had started holding meetings in Uttar Pradesh and other states. Two diaries recovered from him contained lists of their new recruits, said an intelligence official.