After Yasin Bhatkal’s arrest, Indian Mujahideen gets new commanders
Bangalore: The banned home grown terror group ‘Indian Mujahideen’ reportedly has new commanders for anti-India operations.
Mirza Shadab Baig, a small time, semi literate person from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh and Monu alias Tehseen Akhtar from Bihar are reportedly the key operatives of the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, whose names figure in almost all terror attacks in India.
Shadab and Monu are said to have taken over the role of the key IM operative Yasin Bhatkal after his arrest from Raxaul in Bihar in August last year.
Shadab fled Azamgarh in 2008 and is said to have taken refuge in Pakistan. He is reportedly involved in inciting vulnerable victims of Muzaffarnagar communal riots in UP and indoctrinating them in anti-national activities.
“The LeT is using the Muzaffarnagar riots as propaganda material to incite the vulnerable section of the community,” said an official source.
According to Intelligence sources, though Yasin, whose real name is Ahmed Sidibapa, was playing a crucial role in recruitment, planning and execution of terror attacks across the country, he was not alone.
“IM was never a centralised outfit. Shadab, his accomplice Asadullah Akhtar alias Haddi, who was arrested along with Yasin were equally involved in the IM’s terror operations in India. Tehseen, who is reportedly behind the October 2013 blast in Patna, has been working with the LeT independently of the Bhatkal trio — Yasin and the co-founders — Riyaz and Iqbal Shahbandari alias Bhatkal,” said the officer.
In their interrogation Yasin and Asadullah had reportedly told the National Investigation Agency and the Delhi police that Shadab was looking after a splinter group of the IM and was involved in almost all major terror attacks in India since 2005.
Shadab’s name figures in the dossier issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs among the eight fugitive terror suspects from Azamgarh.
