Hyderabad: Former Student Islamic Movement of India national president Syed Salahuddin is the uncle of the three persons who were arrested in a joint operation by the Maharashtra ATS and Telangana Counter Intelligence sleuths in Nagpur while they were on their way to join a terror organisation.
Syed Salahuddin died in October last year in a road accident, a month after the trio was detained for the first time while going to Kolkata. A TS Intelligence official said, “The important fact is the SIMI former president is their uncle. The outfit was involved in several terror acts and Salahuddin was also named in terror cases. It could be that Salahuddin may have influenced them.”
“Their parents were trying their best not give them access to mobile phones and internet. They may have secretly got a phone through their friends. At this moment we are ascertaining who motivated them,” he said. The trio live in the same locality as Salahuddin.
Salahuddin, who originally hails from Nalgonda, was returning to his house at Babanagar, Hyderabad, after attending a family function. He died when his car hit another vehicle. An engineering graduate, Salahuddin joined the Islamic group at a young age. He became the organisation’s national president in 1998 and held the post till 2000.
