Tahseen Akhtar wanted for strikes across country

New Delhi/Patna: Delhi police special commissioner (special cell) S.N. Srivastava said, “IM’s India chief Tahseen Akhtar, alias Monu alias Hassan was a close aide and a protégé of arrested IM co founder Yasin Bhatkal, and is wanted for a series of terrorist strikes in the country. He was also the key link between the IM and other splinter terror outfits that have emerged from the umbrella of the SIMI.”

Mr Srivastava said that Monu met Yasin Bhatkal through Gayur Ahmad. Bhatkal then introduced Monu to dead IM terrorist Quateel Siddiqui, who began his training with molotov cocktails.
It was Monu who received newly trained Waqas and Asadullah Akhtar alias Haddi (arrested along with Yasin Bhatkal last year) in Kathmandu just before their first assignment, that was the Jama Masjid attacks, followed by the Varanasi bombings.

The police also claimed their next attack was Mumbai 2011, where Monu placed the IED at the Dadar station foot overbridge. He followed Mumbai with Hyderabad and planted the IED at Dilsukhnagar.

Meanwhile Barkat Ali, an alleged accomplice of suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist Mohd Sakib Ansari, was arrested from Pratapnagar area in Jodhpur on Tuesday.
Ali had allegedly supplied explosives and electronic detonating devices to Sakib, who was trained in making bombs and carrying out explosions by top IM terrorist Waqas, a Pakistani national wa-nted in connection with several bombings.