Terror suspect Kirmani sent to 14-day remand

AHMEDABAD: A suspect in the 2003 ISI conspiracy case, Saiyed Kirmani Abdul Qadir, was remanded on Wednesday to 14 days police custody by special Pota judge Geeta Gopi. City crime branch had wanted his 21-day custodial interrogation.
The prosecuting agency had sought Kirmani's remand to learn which Muslim youths had received terror training in Pakistan as well as which terror outfits were trained them, ostensibly to avenge the 2002 riots.The cops also wanted to know the whereabouts of alleged mastermind Rasool Party from Kirmani.
The cops said that through Kirmani's questioning, they could find out the identities of those who sheltered him through all these years and of those involved in disruptive and anti-national activities. After hearing the case, the judge sent him to police custody for two weeks.
Thirty-five-year-old Kirmani is the second absconding accused from Hyderabad to be nabbed in this Pota case that has been nabbed, after Maulana Abdul Qavi, who was apprehended in Delhi in March. After his arrest, a crime branch official said, "Kirmani has undergone Daura-e-aam and Daura-e-khas terror training in Pakistan."
Crime branch officials suspect Kirmani had links with the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, which aided the conspiracy hatched at the behest of the ISI. "The killing of Haren Pandya, firing on Jagdish Tiwari, AMTS bus blasts were part of this terror plot. They sent some youths from Gujarat for terror training in Pakistan. Qavi is also an accused in the same case," said a senior official.
Kirmani was detained at Hyderabad airport on Monday. Crime branch sources said Kirmani sneaked in to Saudi Arabia from Pakistan on a fake passport. "We want to know the whereabouts of Mufti Sufiyan, Rasool Party and other terror accused who are hiding in Pakistan," said crime branch officials.