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Terrorism-related incidents in Madhya
Pradesh, 2007-2009
2009
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May 28: The Madhya Pradesh Police
claimed to have arrested a terrorist who allegedly planted a bomb
in the Chennai Express train nine years ago. "Ishaq Khan was arrested
on a tip-off from Madhavganj in Morena on Wednesday night. He planted
a bomb in the Chennai Express while it was passing through the District
on May 20, 2000," the Morena District Police Superintendent Amrit
Meena said, adding, "Ishaq Khan was produced in a court today and
remanded to four days of Police custody." A probe revealed that
the bomb was wrapped in a newspaper published from Gwalior. On that
basis, the Chennai Police investigated in Gwalior and Morena, but
no arrest could be made then. The bomb had been defused by the Police
then, the report added.
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April 12: The Madhya Pradesh Police
arrested an Indian Mujahideen (IM) militant, identified as Saif-ur-Rahman,
from a Mumbai-bound train in Jabalpur. Rehman was a resident of
Azamgarh in the State of Uttar Pradesh and reportedly planted bombs
in Jaipur, capital of Rajasthan, on May 13, 2008 and in Ahmedabad
in Gujarat on July 26, 2008. Rehman became an IM cadre after 2005
and was trained to plant bombs and explosives after conducting a
recce of potential targets, said an officer. His modus operandi
was to purchase a bicycle, plant bombs on it and then posing as
a student, park it at a local railway station.
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February 9: A SIMI cadre, identified as Amil Parvesh,
a native of Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh, who was arrested by the Kerala
Police from Indore in Madhya Pradesh in connection with his suspected
role in the training camp of the outfit held in the Vagamon hills,
was remanded by the Kanjirapally First Class Magistrate Court in
Kottayam in Kerala to 15 days Police custody.
2008
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December 4: A Madhya Pradesh court
handed over an alleged terrorist, identified as Qayimuddin alias
Musa alias Rizwan, wanted in connection with the July
26 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts, to the Anti-Terrorism Squad of
the Gujarat Police.
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November 10: The Gujrat Police has
said that the Madhya Pradesh Police have arrested the main conspirators
of the July 26 Ahmedabad serial blasts, identified as Qayamuddin
Kapadia, from an unspecified place in Madhya Pradesh. Qayamuddin
allegedly planted cycle bombs in Ahmedabad and bombs in different
parts of Surat and was also responsible for the purchase of cycles
on which the bombs were planted and kept in different parts of the
city, said Joint Commissioner of Police of Ahmedabad, Ashish Bhatia.
He was also an expert in using explosives, and reportedly present
during various SIMI terror training camps in Waghamon in Kerala
and Halol near Vadodara and was instrumental in training the participants.
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October 26: The Maharashtra Police
arrested one suspect from Bhopal, capital of Madhya Pradesh, for
his involvement in the September 29 bomb blast in Malegaon and took
him to Mumbai.
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October 23: The Maharashtra Police
arrested Shiv Narayan Gopal Singh Kalsanghra and Shyam Bhawarlal
Sahu from unspecified places in Madhya Pradesh for their alleged
involvement in the September 29 bomb blast in Malegaon in Maharashtra.
An unidentified SIMI cadre was arrested
from the Nagda District in connection with the July 26 serial blasts
in Ahmedabad.
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August 17: Police in Indore arrested
a suspected SIMI activist in connection with the serial blasts in
Ahmedabad on July 26. The arrest followed a tip off provided by
the Gujarat Police. Nine persons arrested by the Gujarat Police
on August 16 for their alleged involvement in the blasts had disclosed
that the explosives used in the blasts were sent from Madhya Pradesh.
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May 8: Three suspected SIMI activists
were arrested from the New Housing Board colony area of Morena.
Fake currency worth INR 80,000 and four mobile phones were recovered
from them. Police sources said that one of the arrested Naajmia
belongs to Kayamganj in Uttar Pradesh, while the other two, Pappu
alias Sudhir Jadaun and Rajbir Gurjar, were from Morena.
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April 10: The Madhya Pradesh Police
arrested a SIMI cadre from Rishala area of Indore city. The arrested
cadre, identified as Hafiz Yusuf, has been an active SIMI worker
and played a significant role in collecting funds for the outfit,
police sources said. He was working in a mobile shop in Indore.
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April 7: Six SIMI cadres were arrested
by the Madhya Pradesh Police. While five of them were arrested from
Guna, another suspected SIMI cadre, identified as Naved Irfan, was
arrested from Indore’s Muslim-dominated Khajrana area for allegedly
indulging in illegal activities and aiding anti-national elements,
a senior police officer said. With these arrests, the total number
of arrests of SIMI cadres in the State, since March 27, has gone
upto 35.
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April 5: Three SIMI activists were
arrested from Narsinghgarh town in Rajgarh District. The Rajgarh
Superintendent of Police D. K. Arya said that SIMI cadres, identified
as Irfan, Faizal and Shakir, were arrested on charges of aiding
anti-national elements and indulging in illegal activities. An unspecified
quantity of objectionable material, video cassettes and CDs were
recovered from the house where the arrests occurred.
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April 4: Three persons, including
a woman, were arrested for allegedly renting their premises to leaders
of the banned SIMI in Indore and Khargone. A house in the Shyam
Nagar locality of Indore was rented to SIMI's Andhra Pradesh unit
chief Qamaruddin Nagori from where police arrested top 13 leaders
of the outfit on March 27. The house rented to the SIMI by Gaffar
Khan Bakerywale was registered in the name of his daughter-in-law
Shahnaz Bi. Police arrested both Khan and Shahnaz for not providing
information to the police about giving their house on rent. Separately,
in Khargone, another person, identified as Shahzad Hussein, was
arrested for allegedly providing his farmhouse to the SIMI for running
training camps.
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April 2: The Madhya Pradesh Police
neutralised a training camp of the SIMI in Choral, a popular holiday
spot, 35-kilometres from the State capital Bhopal. Police claimed
that interrogation of the 13 arrested SIMI cadres led to the information
on the existence of the camp. The Superintendent of Police Chanchal
Shekhar said, "We were told the camp trained SIMI activists from
Jharkhand, Kerala, Karnataka and a few other states. Each training
camp would train around 20 SIMI members. We have information of
five such camps in the past one-and-half years, which would mean
about a hundred SIMI activists trained in Choral." He also said
that the trainees were made to climb the surrounding mountains and
swim across the river daily. The police also found evidence of a
firing range and exploded bits of petrol bombs.
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March 31: The Madhya Pradesh Police
arrested five SIMI cadres from an unspecified location.
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March 27: Thirteen leaders of the
SIMI, including the outfit’s General Secretary Safdar Nagori, and
his brother Kamruddin Nagori, were arrested following several raids
in Indore by the Madhya Pradesh Police. Police described the arrested
persons as active members of the outfit hailing from Kerala, Karnataka,
Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. The arrested
persons included SIMI’s Karnataka unit chief Hafiz Hussain and Shibli,
who is the mainstay of the group’s operations in Kerala.
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January 20: Three persons, including
an Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agent from Pakistan, were arrested
by the Madhya Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) from capital Bhopal
for allegedly passing on sensitive information about the Indian
Army. "Mohammed Imran Warsi, the ISI agent hailing from Karachi,
was arrested in Bhopal yesterday [January 20] with sensitive information
regarding deployment, unit details and important phone numbers of
the Indian Army," said Inspector General of Police (STF), Sanjeev
Singh. On information gathered from him, police arrested two others
— Iqbal and Akhtar—, who were acting as his local contacts and supplying
him sensitive information.
2007
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July 17: A suspected agent of the
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI),
Pakistan external intelligence, was arrested in capital Bhopal along
with secret documents related to the Army, maps and photographs
of vital installations. During interrogation, he revealed his identity
as Mohammad Naeem, a resident of Jhansi in the State of Uttar Pradesh,
who worked as a fourth grade employee of the Indian Railways.
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March 13: Two persons were arrested
in Indore for questioning in connection with the February 19 explosions
in the Samjhauta Express in the State of Haryana. The duo, Huzefa
and Pooran Thakur, were employees of a shop in the Kothari market
from where suitcases used in the explosions were allegedly bought.
Source: Compiled from English language media sources.
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