Terror suspect Abdul Basith got jihadi information from Internet

Hyderabad: Terror suspect Abdul Basith, who was arrested earlier this week, has confessed to the police that he had downloaded terror-related material on his tablet computer.

The FIR booked by the Special Investigation Team of Hyderabad police stated “Basith confessed that he downloaded jihadi materials through the Internet on his tab.” 

It said he had deleted the material due to the fear of the police, and left the tablet computer at home. The FIR disclosed that Basith, Omer Farooq and Maaz Hassan claimed that their uncle Syed Salahuddin, the former president of  SIMI, was their “role model.” Salahuddin died in a road accident last year.

“They regularly held meetings at family functions and parties, and the last was at Nalgonda. Basith is the most aggressive out of the three and he indoctrinated Hassan and Farooq,” an investigation official said.

Police said that Basith, who led the trio, weighs only 46 kg. “It would have been really difficult for the trio to bear the cold in Kashmir. They couldn’t brave the cold wave in Adilabad where the temperature fell to 4ºC,” an official said.

They had travelled on two bikes and reached Adilabad at 9 am. Because of the cold, they were not able to proceed further and kept the motorcycles with a mechanic, the officer said. “They are not physically strong, they have strong jihadi extremism ideology,” he said.

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Meanwhile, the SIT has filed a petition in the Namapally criminal court seeking 10 day’s custody of the three cousins in order to elicit more information. “We are yet to get information on what they did this time. There was a motive which was to join a terror organisation anyhow,” said the official.

ISIS could have Indian Mujahideen modules

Anti-terror Intelligence agencies suspect that several Indian Mujahideen modules from Pune and Uttar Pradesh have joined the terror group ISIS in Syria.

Sources in the Telangana intelligence department revealed that IM module members who were involved in terror cases including the Dilshuknagar twin blasts accused have joined the ISIS. Several IM cadres have joined Ansar-ul-Tawhid Fi Bilad Al Hind which has been active in India.

However, an intelligence official said, “The trio that was held earlier this week has no links with the Ansar Ul Tawhid.”

Police said that in July 2014 Abdullah Basith had participated in a few religious protests in the city and browsed topics relating to Israel on the internet and had said he wanted to stand by the people of Palestine.

Meanwhile, out of 21 terror suspects counselled by the police, only two have tried to join terror outfits again. 

The terror trio used to follow Twitter accounts of several fundamentalist organisations, sources said.

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