By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,
Kochi: The Kerala and Karnataka police teams questioned Thadiyantavide Naseer and his relative Shafas on Sunday. The police have reportedly obtained important information, but refused to share it with the media. The police of Jammu and Kashmir and Tamil Nadu have begun attempts to get the men in custody. Naseer has reportedly confessed before the police that he had recruited men for terrorist activities from Karnataka.
Thadiyantavide Naseer and his relative Shafas were arrested by the Bangladesh police on November 6 from Chittagong and handed over to India. Their arrest was registered in the Meghalaya border and the men were brought to Bengaluru on Friday night. Naseer, suspected to be the South Indian commander of the Lashkar e Toiba, is one of the prime accused the Bengaluru blasts and the third accused in the Kerala-Kashmir terror case. Shafas is known to have helped Naseer in his deeds. Naseer is also accused in several cases in Kerala such as the attempt to murder former chief minister EK Nayanar, the Calicut twin blasts case and the controversial case of setting fire to a bus of the Tamil Nadu RTC. Both men have been found absconding for the past several months when the Kerala police searched for them.
The Bengaluru police have reportedly decided to take Naseer and Shafas to all the nine spots in the city where the blasts took place to collect evidence. Naseer will also be taken to the house in Hosur road in which he had stayed with an accomplice.
The police are reportedly continuing the questioning which is carried out by the anti-terrorism squad of the Karanataka police.
The Jammu and Kashmir police also are trying to question Naseer. They need him for the case in which four Keralites were killed in encounter with the army in the Kashmir valley. It was reportedly found that the men were recruited by Naseer. The four men killed in Kashmir are also accused in the Bengaluru blasts.