Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh anti-terror police
will interrogate suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist
Salman Ahmed to find out if he had any connections in the
state, a top ATS official said on Tuesday.
"Madhya Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad will go to the
national capital to quiz twenty-one-year-old Salman who is
presently in the custody of Delhi police," the official said.
Though there was no blast in Madhya Pradesh, the police
will question Salman alias Chhotu to know if he had visited
the state and had connections with any persons.
However, Madhya Pradesh police will have to wait for its
turn to interrogate him as Salman is wanted by other states,
including Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Delhi also,
for his alleged involvement in serial blasts there, he said.
Salman, a resident of Sanjarpur in Azamgarh district who
carried a reward of Rs one lakh, was arrested by Uttar Pradesh
ATS from Siddharth Nagar district, bordering Nepal and is
presently in the custody of Delhi police.
Salman is an expert in carrying out blasts. He is also
alleged to have received training in handling weapons and
explosives during his stay in Pakistan, police sources said.
Following the Delhi serial blasts, Salman spent a lot of
time in eastern Uttar Pradesh and then fled to Nepal, where he
got a Nepalese passport under a fictitious identity.
Salman had been to different places in UAE and Pakistan,
including Sharjah, Dubai, Karachi and Lahore.
There he met several top Indian Mujahideen operatives
including Iqbal and Riyaz Bhatkal and even underwent training
in arms and explosives, sources said.
PTI
First Published: Tuesday, March 09, 2010, 19:50