New Delhi: Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal may have evaded the law for long, but he ran out of luck on Wednesday. Sources in Delhi Police special cell who have been tracking IM for eight years say it’s a two-year long operation in which Yasin was successful in carrying out four strikes and over 18 militants were arrested from its Bihar module.
For over 10 months, the plot for the 2010 failed terror strike at Jama Masjid had not been cracked till security agencies spotted a man who was being treated in a hospital in Dharbhanga.
The limp and the fact that he was being treated for bullet injury raised doubts. He was picked up and questioned. It turned out that he was Mohammed Adil, a Pakistani militant, who had fired at a Taiwanese national and accidentally got injured.
Adil’s arrest led to the busting of IM’s Bihar module. Other IM operatives Gauhar, Md Irshad and Qateel Siddiqui were picked up subsequently. Siddiqui (later found dead under suspicious circumstances) gave an insight into Yasin Bhatkal. In Dharbhanga, he was Dr Imran and in Delhi he married Md Irshad’s wife. For 18 months, Yasin operated a gun factory on the outskirts of Delhi-Haryana border and also became a father.
But this trail to nab Bhatkal died soon. In January 2011, security agencies came close to nabbing him in Mumbai but the special cell and Maharashtra ATS fought with each other over detention of an informer and he managed to escape.
Death of Qateel Siddiqui in Yerwada Jail spurred Yasin again. This time Riaz and Iqbal Bhatkal told him not only to avenge Qateel’s death but also avenge killing of Rohingaya Muslims in Bihar and strike in Hyderabad.
This time he tapped radicalised youth in Aurangabad, who were motivated by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Fayaz Kagzi in Saudi.
Reconnaissance was done in three cities by Syed Maqbool Imran and Irfan. Interestingly, Yasin introduced himself as Shahrukh and chatted with them through social networking site.
Some say ISI and Riaz was unhappy with him for carrying out a failed strike in Bodh Gaya as he was running out of resources and men.
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