Main terror IM suspect sent to police custody

JODHPUR/JAIPUR: The main terror suspect of Indian Mujahideen (IM) module in Jodhpur, Mohammad Saqib Ansari has been remanded to 10 days' police custody on Monday. He was produced in the ACJM court here by the Rajasthan ATS, which had taken his custody from Delhi Police (Special Cell) and brought to Jodhpur on transit remand for further investigation. Two others, Mohammed Waqar and Mohammed Mahroof, who were arrested from Jaipur are also in ATS custody. All the three were brought to Rajasthan from Delhi on a transit remand. ATS will interrogate the trio over the next few days and also carry out physical verification of various places. As a case under Explosive Substances Act is registered against Waqar and Saqib, the ATS will try to know from where they procured the explosives allegedly seized from them when they were arrested in March. Saqib was arrested in Jodhpur in a joint operation of Delhi and Jodhpur police on March 23 followed by 4 more arrests from Jodhpur leading to busting of a breeding IM module in Jodhpur. All of them are currently under judicial custody whereas Saqib was also remanded to judicial custody by Delhi court. "Since the investigation part of Delhi Police was complete, we wanted him for our part of investigation", said an ATS official. "We would now interrogate him during this 10 days' period of transit remand and would try to extract more information from him regarding the module in the state besides verification of other relevant spots," he said. A team of Delhi Police and Rajasthan ATS had arrested Waqar, an engineering student at GIT college, from a rented accommodation in the city's Pratap Nagar, while arrested Mahroof from his parental home in Jhotwara's Sanjay Nagar locality. Saqib was arrested from Jodhpur. Mahroof was also an engineering student at VIT college in Jaipur. The module handlers had a plan to carry out explosions at a number of places, for which they had conducted recce of many places in Jodhpur, Jaipur, Delhi and Agra. They had also tested the bombs made by them following the training from Waqas and Tahseen Akhtar alias Monu.