Mateen Hafeez | TNN
Mumbai: Further investigations after the arrest of four suspected terror operatives—two each from Aurangabad and Buldhana—have revealed that the tech-savvy module avoided the use of mobile phones and used computers ingeniously to dodge police surveillance.
Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Rakesh Maria said that Jafar Hussain Qureshi, who was arrested in Buldhana on Tuesday, was a computer expert and created email IDs for all his associates. These email addresses were never used to send emails though. Instead, the operatives shared the IDs and passwords among themselves, and whenever an operative
had to send a message, he would compose a mail and save it in the drafts folder. Later, his colleagues would log in to the same account, write their comments and save it as draft mails again.
“They functioned meticulously. That is why they could avoid the police for such a long time,” said Maria, adding that no mobile phone or SIM card was recovered from the suspects.
The ATS on Monday gunned down suspected IM member Khaleel Qureshi in an encounter in Aurangabad and arrested two of his aides, Mohammad Abrar and Mohammad Shaker Hussain. A day later, Hussain’s father Aqueel Khilji was arrested from Buldhana along with Jafar.
ATS officers said Khilji was in touch with senior IM functionary Abdus Subhan Qureshi alias Tauqeer. “We have zeroed in on his location. He is in India,” said an officer. Khilji is allegedly the head of the banned SIMI’s Madhya Pradesh unit and was in Maharashtra to expand the outfit’s network. “They were staying in Maharashtra under false identities. Their aim was to carry out bank robberies to raise funds for the expenses of their associates,” the officer added.
The Times of India, March 30, 2012
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