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Delhi Police Claims IM Founding Member in Net

By Qaumiawaz bureau
Updated Saturday, 04 February 2012 15:02:37 - IST (UTC +5:30)

New Delhi: Delhi Police has claimed that a founding member of illusive IM has been arrested from Bihar Sharif, near Patna. The accused is a 31-year-old civil engineer who was till recently working in Delhi in a construction firm.
Special team of the Delhi Police arrested the accused Mohammad Tariq Anjuman Hasan, 31, on Thursday Evening.
It is claimed that Tariq, a civil engineer was staying in southeast Delhi's Shaheen Bagh area while working at a consultancy firm in the Capital till late November last year. He was arrested from Qazi Mohalla of Town Nalanda.
DCP Crime, Ashok Chand claimed "He joined the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (Simi) as early as in 1998 after being indoctrinated by the Bhatkal brothers. He was just 19 at the time and pursuing engineering at the Anjuman Engineering College at Bhatkal in Karnataka." Mr. Chand patting his own back said, "Tariq was the biggest catch in the continuing onslaught against the home-grown terror outfit yet IM."
The son of a retired teacher, Tariq was working at a consultancy firm in Khirki Extension as a civil engineer before the arrests of six IM operatives triggered his vanishing act and drove him all the way to Nalanda between November and December last year.
"Tariq ran away and sought shelter with a distant relative at his residence in Nalanda's Ahmedganj district," the officer said.
"Though he hasn't been found to be involved directly in organising any terrorist plot, he played a major role in recruiting cadres for the IM, especially its newest Bihar module," the officer added.
Tariq, sources claimed, was among the five men who transformed the small student movement that the SIMI had originally been envisaged as into a militant, guerrilla outfit that the IM has now become. The cops said Tariq was one of the six most wanted men of IM who were involved in the terror attacks in Pune, Bangalore, Delhi's Jama Masjid and Mumbai over the last few years. The police, who had brought him to Delhi on a transit remand, produced him at a local court on Friday and got 14 days of police remand.
A civil engineer by profession, Tariq reportedly became a SIMI member in 1998, but after it was banned in 2001, he joined hands with Riyaz and Iqbal. Sources say he is one of the founder members of IM and used to receive all the funds, which came through hawala from Pakistan, for terror operations. Tariq, originally from Nalanda, Bihar, completed his engineering degree from Anjuman Engineering College at Bhatkal in Karnataka.
"He knows Shahrukh since 2002 and knew about every attack Shahrukh has orchestrated," said a top official. Officials added that Tariq had managed to slip away from Delhi when the police arrested seven IM members and raided a factory in Meer Vihar in November. "He was initially hiding here but later moved to Nalanda," said a source.
The police sources claimed Tariq was part of the select five (along with the Bhatkal brothers, Shahrukh and Kolkata American Center attack plotter Amir Rezza Khan) who had conceptualized and got a series of explosions executed across India since 2006.
With his arrest, the team of DCP Ashok Chand and ACP Sanjeev Yadav believe that they will be able to arrest several veteran IM members whose names have not come out yet. "As he is a founder member, he must be knowing about all the operatives like Shahrukh who were initially inducted in the group and who have knowledge about IM's operatives, hideouts, hawala dealers, logistic providers and modules," said a source. Police claimed that Tariq mainly recruited youths for the organization and helped Shahrukh in operations.
Tariq's name cropped up during interrogation of IM accused Gauhar Aziz Khomani. Police claimed that "Sometime in late 2003, five men decided to form the IM. Tariq was one of them. The others were Riyaz and Iqbal, who are currently in Karachi, Yasin alias Shahrukh and one Ismail who is absconding".

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