Bilal has fled Dhaka, in West Asia: Cops

HYDERABAD: The prime suspect in the Hyderabad twin blasts, Bilal, has now fled Bangladesh. He left that country on August 26 - a day after the explosions that rocked the Andhra Pradesh capital - and seems to have gone to some place in West Asia.
Before leaving Dhaka, Bilal spoke to one of his close associates in Hyderabad. This is the information that the police have gathered in the course of investigations.Bilal was accompanied by his wife, a Bangladeshi widow whom he married lately, said a source.
The investigators have found that Bidar in northern Karnataka was used by Bilal and his team as a base for their terror operations. RDX was pushed into Andhra Pradesh from Bidar and explosives were sourced from that place. Three locals from Bidar were associated with Bilal. However, they are all now on the run.
One of them has been identified by cops as Muhammad, an explosives dealer, who was introduced to Bilal sometime in 2005 when he came visiting, by one Ali Khan, also from Bidar, who helped Bilal set up terror cells in the area. The third Bidar man involved is said to be Shakeel Ahmed.
Police are now certain that Bilal was behind the New Year eve blast in Bangalore's Indian Institute of Science which killed a professor from IIT, Delhi. "In fact, Bilal's trip was to engineer this blast and facilitate sleeper cells for the future. Bilal was very keen to organise like-minded people," cops said. Police also believe that Bilal had met his father and brother in Bidar during this trip, but his father has denied it.
Though in Karnataka, Bidar is barely 110 km from Hyderabad. It was also part of the undivided Hyderabad state before it was merged to Karnataka. The RDX smuggling probe has gained pace after the arrest of a Bangladeshi woman in Hyderabad. Another Bangladeshi woman, Shiak, was picked up in Bangalore on Monday night. According to sources, she claimed to be a call centre employee.