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Terrorism related incidents in Andhra
Pradesh since 2007
 
2010
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Date
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Place
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Incident
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January 18, 2010
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Hyderabad
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The
Special investigation Team (SIT) of Hyderabad Police arrested
‘south India commander’ of the LeT, identified
as Shaik Abdul Khaja alias Amjad, from
Afzalgunj area of the city. Police said that the arrestee
was linked to Mohammed Abdul Shahid Bilal, key suspect
in the May 2007 Mecca Masjid bombing. Hyderabad Police
Commissioner B. Prasada Rao said that Amjad was a resident
of Moosaram Bagh and has been absconding since 2005. Amjad,
who also goes by the noms de guerre of
Saif, Pappu and Abdullah, is accused of having close links
with other terrorist groups like the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami
(HuJI) and the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Rao said, adds The
Hindu. Rao also mentioned that Amjad was in Hyderabad for
a recce for a terrorist attack. At the time of his arrest,
he had in his possession USD 348, Saudi Riyal 313, United
Arab Emirates Dirham 225 PNR 28,640 and BNR 348, Rao said.
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2
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May 3, 2010
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Hyderabad
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The
Hyderabad Police neutralised a sleeper cell of LeT by
arresting its operative Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq. The 34-year-old
accused turned out to be the man who lobbed a grenade
inside Odeon theatre at RTC crossroads in 2006, Hyderabad
Police Commissioner A.K. Khan told reporters. Haq became
passive soon after carrying out that grenade attack and
continued to live in Hyderabad though he met his handlers
now and then. In a joint operation with Counter Intelligence
wing, the city Police arrested Haq, a resident of Edibazar
of Bhavaninagar in old city. A Chinese made 7.4 pistol
with six rounds and two Chinese made grenades were seized
from him. Directed by his handlers to cause ‘maximum damage’
in the city, Haq was looking out for targets when city
Police were alerted by central intelligence agencies,
Khan said.
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3
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May 14
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Hyderabad
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A Policeman
was killed when at least two gunmen attacked an unarmed
Police Picket at the Khilwat junction of the communally
sensitive Old City area, four days ahead of the third
anniversary of the bomb blast at Mecca Masjid. Constable
V. Ramesh and his colleague Sri Hari were under a tree
when two youths drove up to them on a motorcycle. One
of them whipped out a weapon and shot at the Policemen.
Hyderabad Police Commissioner A.K. Khan said that Police
suspected the involvement of Vikaruddin, a suspected operative
of the LeT, who reportedly masterminded a similar attack
earlier. Subsequently, forensic experts who sifted the
area found two spent cartridges and a blood-stained Compact
Discs (CD) believed to have been left behind by the assailants.
The CD contained a statement by an unknown outfit, Tehrik-e-Galba
Islami that the attack was in retaliation for the bomb
explosions at Mecca Masjid in 2007. The statement is in
the name of Mohammad Fasiuddin.
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4
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July 14, 2010
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Secunderabad
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The
Andhra Pradesh Police on July 14 arrested a terrorist,
identified as Viqaruddin Ahmed, who was on the run for
more than two years after masterminding the killing of
a home guard and a Constable in Hyderabad, The Hindu reported.
On information that he was moving around in disguise,
the Police arrested him when he came to a roadside shop
to buy vegetables at Padmaraonagar in Secunderabad. The
Counter Intelligence Cell also detained his brother, Sulaiman,
and two others after raiding a single-room tenement they
had taken on rent at Shabajiguda of Padmaraonagar. Among
the detained was a homeopathy doctor, Mohammed Haneef,
of Musheerabad, who sheltered Viqaruddin. Based on Viqaruddin''s
confession, two youths were arrested from Miryalaguda
in Nalgonda District. Police records show that Viqaruddin,
who lives in Malakpet, was initially associated with the
Darsgah Jihad-O-Shahadat, a religious fundamentalist organisation
operating from the Old City.
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Data till July 19, 2010
2009
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Date
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Place
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Incident
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January 20, 2009
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Hyderabad
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An Indian Mujahideen (IM)
cadre and alleged key suspect of the July 2008 serial
bomb blasts in Bangalore (capital of Karnataka) and Surat
(Gujarat) was arrested by the counter intelligence wing
of the Andhra Pradesh Police. The arrestee, identified
as E. T. Zainudheen alias Abdul Sattar, a native of Malappuram
District in Kerala, was actively involved in terror activities
in different parts of the country. Sattar, a radio mechanic,
is an expert in timer devices and prepared circuits placed
with timers used for the Bangalore bomb blasts on July
25, 2008, a Police official said, adding, "We strongly
suspect his role in last year''s Bangalore blasts. He
also made timer devices for Surat bombs." Sattar was closely
associated with Riyaz Bhatkal, a key leader of the IM,
he said. During interrogation, Sattar confessed that he
hosted Riyaz and Jabbar for two days in October 2008.
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May 2, 2009
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Hyderabad
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Mohammed Nissar, an alleged
LeT militant from Hyderabad who disappeared in 2003 while
facing trial in a terrorism case, was arrested by the
Police in Hyderabad.
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May 3, 2009
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Hyderabad
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A suspected LeT militant,
identified as Mohammed Nissar, who was arrested by the
Police from Hyderabad, capital of Andhra Pradesh, was
remanded to judicial custody till May 18. According to
the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), R.S. Praveen
Kumar, Nissar alias Osman Bhai had been staying in the
Manna Ekhelli village of Bidar District in the Karnataka
State. "In August 2001, he along with Abdul Aziz alias
Gidda was arrested for indulging in subversive activities
and released on bail after three months. Later, he stopped
attending the court and went missing,'' the DCP added.
It is learnt that the Police had then recovered two pistols,
one forged passport, Compact Discs containing jihadi material
and an electronic detonator from him.
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2008
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Date
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Place
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Incident
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March 6
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Hyderabad
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Police arrested an agent
of the Pakistani external intelligence agency, the Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI), identified as Billah, following information
provided by a terror suspect arrested in Karnataka. Billah
was reportedly named by Raziuddin Naser, who was arrested
in Karnataka in January 2008 in connection with a plot
to carry out terrorist attacks in Goa and Hyderabad. Some
sensitive documents and compact discs were recovered from
Billah, who had previously been booked for two cases filed
in late 2004.
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July 14
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Chittoor
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The Additional District
Judge court at Madanapalli in the Chittoor district of
Andhra Pradesh sentenced to life imprisonment a Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT)
militant Azad Ahmed Qureshi, who was arrested in Madanapalli
on July 3, 2007. The 29-year-old Qureshi, a native of
Kashmir, was sentenced and fined INR 12,000 under sections
121, 121a and 468 of the Indian Penal Code for waging
war against India, conspiracy to wage war and forgery
in the preparation of election identity cards in Kashmir
by the Judge.
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July 15
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Hyderabad
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Police arrested Mohammed
Muqeemuddin Yaser, a former member of the outlawed Students
Islamic Movement of India (SIMI),
from his residence in the Saidabad area of Hyderabad,
capital of Andhra Pradesh. Yaser, who is a MBA student,
is also the eldest son of Maulana Naseeruddin, the founder
president of Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Shaan-e-Islam (TTSI)
and is presently lodged at the Sabarmati jail in Ahmedabad
for his alleged role in the assassination of the former
Gujarat home minister Haren Pandya. Yaser’s younger brother
Raziuddin Naser, a suspect in the twin blast cases in
Hyderabad in August 2007, was arrested by the Karnataka
Police in January 2008 for planning terrorist attacks
in Karnataka and Goa.
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September 1
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Hyderabad
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The Hyderabad Police arrested
a person identified as Jaber for suspected links with
the SIMI. Hyderabad City Commissioner of Police B. Prasada
Rao said, "Jaber has been arrested for his alleged links
with the banned SIMI and sharing material with SIMI head
Safdar Nagori." Jaber, son of Moulana Naseeruddin, is
a Hyderabad resident. Naseeruddin is an accused in the
assassination of former Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya
and is now in Sabarmati jail in Gujarat.
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November 22
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Hyderabad
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Kerala Police arrested
one Indian Mujahideen (IM) cadre, identified as Abdul
Jabbar, from Rajendra Nagar police station limits.
Jabbar reportedly belonged to Malappuram in Kerala and
recruited youths from his home State for armed training
in Jammu and Kashmir and in Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
He had managed to escape from an encounter site in Jammu
and Kashmir in October 2008. Investigation revealed that
Jabbar is the relative of Abdul Sattar, another terror
suspect. Jabbar confessed that he had received training
in making bombs and assembling and dismantling of guns.
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December 3
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Hyderabad
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A suspected terrorist
involved in the May 18, 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case,
identified as Vikar Ahmed, and his accomplice, identified
as Amjad, and two others escaped after open firing at
a three member police team, who tried to arrest them near
the crowded Indira Seva Sadan cross road in the Santoshnagar
area.
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2007
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May 18
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Hyderabad
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10 persons were killed
and over 50 others injured in a bomb blast at the Mecca
Masjid (Mecca mosque) near Charminar. Over 10,000
people were offering prayers at the 400-year-old mosque
at 1.15 p.m. when the bomb exploded. Police sources said
that the explosive device, in which RDX was used, was
triggered with a cellular phone and was hidden underneath
a thick marble platform. Two more improvised explosive
devices (IEDs) were recovered from the site and later
defused by the police. Police also found a SIM card from
a mobile phone attached to an IED.
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June 15
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Hyderabad
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An ISI agent, Mohammed
Abdul Sattar, a 27-year-old air conditioner mechanic,
was arrested near Secunderabad railway station. Sattar
reportedly confessed that he had received arms training
in Pakistan in 2004 along with other ISI activists under
the leadership of Shahid Bilal, a key suspect in the Hyderabad
bomb blast.
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July 3
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Chittoor
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A suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT) militant, Azad Ahmed Qureshi, was arrested at Madanapalle.
A native of Srinagar, capital of Jammu and Kashmir, Qureshi
engaged in leather jackets business from 1993 to 1999
in Delhi. Subsequently, he began working for the Islamic
Front, a militant outfit operating from Pakistan occupied
Kashmir (PoK). He was in prison till April 2006 following
which he continued to work with terrorist outfits, crossed
over to Pakistan occupied Kashmir and established links
with the LeT.
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July 15
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Secunderabad
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A courier of terror operatives
suspected to have links with Shahid Bilal, prime suspect
in the May 18 Mecca Masjid blast in Hyderabad city, was
arrested. The arrested man, 26-year-old Mohd Abdul Kareen
Quadri, of Asmangadh in Malakpet, ran a watch repair shop
in Malakpet.
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August 25
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Hyderabad
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Police arrested four persons,
including a Dubai national, and seized counterfeit currency
of INR 2.36 crore from the old city area, hours before
the twin blasts at the Lumbini Park and Gokul Chat Shop.
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August 25
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Hyderabad
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The city police recovered
a live bomb from Dilsukhnagar area and later defused it,
hours after the twin blasts. The bomb was planted underneath
a foot-over-bridge with a timer set for 9.30 pm, police
sources said.
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August 25
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Hyderabad
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10 persons were killed
and 29 others injured in a bomb blast in an open air auditorium
in Lumbini Park near the State secretariat when a laser
show was underway.
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August 25
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Hyderabad
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32 persons were killed
and 21 others injured when an explosion occurred at 7.50
pm at the popular Gokul Chat shop in Kothi locality.
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September 11
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Hyderabad
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One suspected agent of
Pakistan’s external intelligence agency, the Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI), was arrested by the Special Investigation
Team probing the August 25 twin blasts in Hyderabad. Mohammed
Sohail, a resident of Saleem Nagar in Malakpet, was arrested
at the RTC crossroad area. He was reportedly found in
possession of jihadi literature. Police sources
said that Sohail was in contact with the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami
(HuJI) leader Shahid Bilal, the prime accused in the blast
cases in Hyderabad.
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