Police believe he may be in touch with a section of senior Lashkar commanders

 

Mumbai: Arrested Lashkar-e-Tayyaba terrorist suspect Faheem Ahmed, a Jogeswari resident, is likely to be brought to Mumbai by the UP police in the next couple of days to help facilitate probe into the botched terror plot.

Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) sources said Faheem who is in the custody of UP police would be taken around the city for identifying the targets selected for attack.

“We have information about one of the safe houses rented by the Lashkar operatives in Mumbai. But we can’t divulge anything more at this stage of probe,” said Amitav Yash SSP of the special task force of UP police.

“We are trying to ascertain if he had any role in arranging for safe houses for LeT militants,” said a senior ATS officer.

“Faheem was radicalised during his stay in Mumbai around 2005 after which he fled to Dubai. There he was accosted by a jihadist operative who arranged for his travel and training in Pakistan,” ATS additional commissioner of police Param Bir Singh told DNA.

But intelligence officials believe Faheem and those arrested alongwith him may not have been precisely trying to activate a Lashkar sleeper cell in Mumbai. “They themselves were entrusted with a task and they were out to accomplish that,” said an intelligence official.
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Faheem donned two aliases during his stay at a Rawalpindi training camp in Pakistan before being asked to leave for India on a mission,” said another ATS officer.

Faheem and the other LeT associates were instrumental in executing the jihadist strike at the Rampur CRPF camp in which seven paramilitary personnel were killed on January 1. They were also involved in the attack on Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science in 2005 in which a professor was shot dead.

Faheem’s confessions are treated very seriously by the police and they believe he may be in touch with a section of senior Lashkar commanders.

“The probe into the case may yield more crucial arrests in the coming days,” said the ATS officer.

Source : DNA