Bodhgaya Terror - Wanted Jihadi brothers Sahidur Rehman & Saifur Rehman. Indian police are hot on the trail of two operatives by the name Sahidur Rehman and Saifur Rehman in connection with the Bodhgaya blasts case. The sketches of the two have been released by the Bihar police based on the CCTV footage that they managed to obtain. Sahidur & Saifur are brothers and their original place of residence was Scotland and Saudi Arabia before they landed in Bihar. The police and the National Investigation Agency managed to get this information based on Intelligence Dossiers on the two persons. Following the alert issued in 2011, the agencies have been on their trail and it was learnt through investigation that they were residing at Scotland and Saudi Arabia. According to the investigators, Sahidur arrived in Bihar on May 6th and joined a team of youth in Darabanga who were plotting this attack. Saifur came into India on June 7th according to the police and joined his brother. It appears that they were called in specifically for this attack. An officer part of the investigation tells rediff that they had two plans in mind. The first was to carry out a major attack in Patna. However on discussing the plan it was decided that they would carry out the attack on Bodhgaya. Patna was a difficult target as there was not enough planning. However in the case of Bodhgaya there was already data available since the place had been surveyed. During the past two months Sahidur is said to have surveyed the Mahabodhi several times along with his accomplices. After being joined by his brother he continued with the planning. There were some members of the local modules also part of the planning. A day before the blast they did a dry run of the place. While planting the bombs, they were accompanied by several other persons and all through they oversaw the operation and ensured that there was no let up. Intelligence Bureau officials say that the two are part of the Indian Mujahideen. The data base on them shows that they are inclined towards this outfit. However they have not been active members and have been roped in for this attack. Saifur was in Saudi Arabia and was in touch with some of the operatives from the Darabanga module and this is how the information regarding him and his brother came out. Moreover those interrogated by the Delhi police also had mentioned Saifur. Meanwhile the agencies are also interrogating a person by the name Vinod whose identification card was found at the premises. The interrogation of the Kolkata based Anwar Mullick who has been detained is also underway. NIA officials say that he has not said anything new as yet. He confirms what the Delhi police had already said on the basis of their investigation in the year 2011. We are interrogating him further and are hopeful of new leads coming out, the NIA official also pointed out.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 09:55:42 +0000
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