By IANS
Hyderabad : Raziuddin Nasir, a terror suspect recently arrested in Karnataka, was brought here Wednesday to probe his role into last year’s bomb blasts in Hyderabad and was sent to jail in connection with a four-year-old case.
Nasir’s friend Motasim Billa was also arrested in the evening for his alleged involvement in the attack on a Gujarat police team in 2004.
Nasir, 22, a native of Saeedabad neighbourhood in the city, was brought on a production warrant and produced before a city court, which sent him to judicial custody till March 18. He is lodged at the central jail, Cherlapally.
A statement from the police commissioner’s office here said Nasir was underground for three years and has been arrested in connection with the case relating to the attack on the Gujarat police team before the office of the director general of police (DGP) here when it was taking his father Moulana Naseeruddin to Gujarat.
The incident had occurred Oct 31, 2004 when followers of Naseeruddin resisted the Gujarat police’s attempts to shift him to that state. A Gujarat police official had then opened fire killing a youth.
Meanwhile, police also arrested the deceased youth’s brother Motasim Billa in the same case. A separate police statement said Billa, son of cleric Moulana Abdul Aleem Islahi, was also found in possession of seditious literature and CDs.
Moulana Naseeruddin, a cleric, is currently lodged in a Gujarat jail and is facing trial in the murder of former Gujarat home minister Haren Pandya.
The city police are likely to move the court for Nasir’s custody so that he could be questioned on his suspected role in the bomb blasts and the conspiracy to blow up the DGP office.
A bomb blast during Friday prayers at the historic Mecca Masjid May 18 had killed nine people while the near-simultaneous blasts at a park and a famous eatery had claimed 44 lives Aug 25.
Nasir was arrested in Davangere in Karnataka in January this year. Held in a motorcycle theft case, Nasir was subsequently identified as a Pakistan-trained terror operative and was booked for conspiracy to wage war against the country and for his alleged association with the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). About a dozen other suspects were also arrested in the neighbouring state.
Police will question Nasir about an alleged plan to blow up the DGP office here.
Nasir told the interrogators in Karnataka that he with the support of two other youths from the city planned to crash a four-wheeler packed with explosives into the DGP office in the heart of the city and adjacent to the state legislative assembly building.
The plan failed because the two men could not provide him necessary support like improvised explosive devices (IEDs), a place to store these and a stolen car.
Meanwhile, Nasir’s family said he was innocent and police were trying to implicate him in a false case.