Hyderabad: The capital of Andhra Pradesh
would have witnessed yet another terror attack on this year's
Republic Day had Mohammed Amjad alias Khaja, an operative of
terror group Harkat-ul-Jihadi-al-Islami of Bangladesh,
succeeded in his "conspiracy", police here claim.
Khaja had allegedly hatched a plan to unleash terror in
Hyderabad but the police claimed to have it by arresting him
from Afzalgunj bus stand here on Monday.
A senior police official said Khaja, who was made South
India chief of terror outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami
(HuJI-Bangladesh), has confessed to interrogators that he had
hatched a plan to create panic in Hyderabad on the occasion of
Republic Day for which he had contacted his associates here.
Hyderabad had witnessed terror attacks, including Mecca
Masjid blasts and twin blasts in 2007, which claimed over 40
lives.
According to the official, 27-year-old Khaja, a native
of Malakpet locality here who allegedly has close links with
terror outfits LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Indian
Mujahideen (IM), was tasked by the Inter Services Intelligence
(ISI) of Pakistan to carry out some major action in South
India.
"Khaja was supervising operations on recruiting youth
for terror acts and accordingly he arrived in Hyderabad. We
are investigating if he visited Bangladesh and India earlier
also," the senior police official said.
Khaja, according to the official, was in Karachi and
reached Colombo on January 15 before flying to Chennai and
Hyderabad.
PTI
First Published: Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 20:56