State cop visits Indore to gather details about SIMI

Amid suspicion of the involvement of SIMI activists in May 13 serial blasts here, SP (Special Operations Group) Devendra Singh travelled to Indore to collect information about the banned outfit’s activists.

When contacted on his return on Tuesday, Singh told The Times of India,"As of now, there is nothing much worth sharing with media." Several SIMI leaders, including Shibly Abdul, who was wanted in connection with the Mumbai train serial blasts in July 2006, former SIMI chief Safdar Nagori and his brother Kamruddin Nagori, were arrested from Indore on March 27.

Sources said Singh reached Indore on Monday and met Indore range IG Anil Kumar and Indore SP Anshuman Singh Yadav and sought details about the arrested SIMI activists.

A senior police official said Rajasthan police have sought help from Indore police in their probe into the suspected involvement of SIMI activists in blasts.

Another senior intelligence official said SIMI had been active in at least twelve districts of Rajasthan before it was banned in the year 2000.

"Thereafter 22 cases were registered against them and several arrests were made," he said and added none of the cases against SIMI men was related to terrorist activities.

He also said after the ban, the outfit maintained a low profile till October last year when it was al-leged to be involved in the blast at Ajmer shrine in which two persons were killed and 17 others were injured.
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