Telangana News

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives, who are absconding from Hyderabad, have turned recruiters for banned outfits and started enlisting youth from across India  for carrying out the terror attacks.

Though intelligence agencies are scanning the online recruitment through propaganda videos of ISIS, the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) recently concluded a probe into a pan Indian terror module, which revealed that the banned terror outfit has operatives in the city.

The NIA special court in Bangalore, on September 16th, had sentenced 13 LeT operatives, including BCom student from the city, Obaidur Ur Rehman, to five-years of imprisonment for conspiring to kill right-wing politicians, journalists and police personnel from Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Hubli and Nanded. The four year investigation by NIA 's Hyderabad unit revealed that six of them, currently residing in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, were instrumental in hatching the conspiracy. Abdul Hakeem Jamadar, Zafar Iqbal Sholapur and Md Akram from Karnataka of the 13 jeed introduced Akram to several LeT operatives of Hyderabad based in Riyadh and Dammam, who were already guiding other accused about how to carry out terror attacks in India, said an official, who was part of the investigation.

3 out of 6 Hyderabad LeT operatives are facing criminal charges. Ghori is wanted in the Akshardhan terror attack case, while Mohammed Bhai alias Abdul Bari alias Abu Hamza in the 2002 Dilsukhnagar Sai Baba temple blast case and Siddique Bin Osman in the 1998 conspiracy case, registered at the CCS, Hyderabad. 

"Red corner notices are issued against all the wanted accused from the city and even the Saudi Arabian government was given their details, requesting for capture in case of a trace so that they could be deported," a Telangana intelligence official, said. Convicts had in fact got in touch with Abdul Rahman alias Mohammed Farhatulla Ghori, the terror operative from Hyderabad wanted in the Akshardham temple attack case.

"Jamadar and Zafar wanted to join Taliban and fight against Nato forces in Afghanistan. Ghori convinced them to carry out jihadi activities in India and introduced them to ISI handlers Hamd, Mustafa, Abdul Wahed and LeT commander Riyan. The duo was trained in intelligence gathering, cyber espionage and weapon handling," an NIA official said.