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Islamist extremism related Incidents
in Andhra Pradesh
 
2009
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Date
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Incident
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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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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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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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2008
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Sl. No.
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Date
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Place
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Incident
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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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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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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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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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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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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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2007
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Incident
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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