Suspected IM terrorist held. :- 15.5.12 - The Pioneer

Asuspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist, who was allegedly invovled in motivating youth to join the out fit, has been arrested by the Delhi Police. Shakeel, the suspected IM man was arrested from a place near Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh. A senior police official said, Shakeel was arrested from near Lucknow by a team of Delhi Police’s Special Cell. He is allegedly into brainwashing and motivating youth to join the terror outfit, which is named in several serial blasts in the country.Shakeel is a close relative of one Bashir, another suspected

terrorist who was arrested by Delhi Police. This is the fourth arrest of an Indian Mujahideen terrorist by Delhi Police this year. In November last year, Delhi Police had arrested six Indian Mujahideen terroristsfrom across the country. On March 26, police arrested Assadullah Rehman, alias Dilkash (20), an alleged aide of the outfit’s elusive chief operative Yasin Bhatkal, from north-east Delhi’s Karawal Nagar with one kg explosives

and a detonator. Dilkash, who hails from  Darbhanga in Bihar, had allegedly escaped in November last year from the arms factory run by Indian Mujahideen in west Delhi’s Nangloi before the police crackdown during which a number of suspected terrorists were  nabbed by police. In April last year, the official said, on instructions from Bhatkal, he reached Delhi and was taken to the factory at Meer Vihar in Nangloi which

was later busted by police. After the arrests of Indian Mujahideen operatives in November last, Bhatkal directed      him to leave the factory premises along with whatever explosives and other material he could lay his hands on.

In February, police arrested Mohd Tarique Anjuman, one of the founder-members of Indian Mujahideen Mohd

Tarique Anjuman from Patna and Talha  Abdali, alias Israr, from Barabanki. Israr had allegedly provided refuge to Yasin Bhatkal in November last year.Abdali is considered an important ideologue of the Indian Mujahideen and his name has surfaced in 2008 and had been on run since then. Anjuman was an active member of banned SIMI organisation since 1998 and later was one of the founder members of Indian Mujahideen since 2003 along with Iqbal Bhatkal.Anjuman is believed to be one of the ideologues who used to motivate youth to join the terror outfit and provide them arms training