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terrorists in the country. ised several persons across India and joining Nepal preempting his attempt
Ansari, who is serving a life term later were held responsible for carrying to flee there. GRP too was geared up
in Ajmer jail, was visiting his family several blasts. to go for extensive security checking.
in Mumbai on parole and was due to Ansari was released on parole fol- All the district police machinery been
report back at the prison on Friday lowing a Supreme Court order on 28 activated. The trains coming and going
morning on 17th January,2020, but On December. Hewas namedin at least towards Mumbai were special target
Thursday, Ansari’s family members re- 50 bomb blasts. Uttar Pradesh police and kept under vigilance. Meanwhile,
siding in Mominpadaarea approached nabbed him in Kanpur, while he was Deputy SP of Lucknow SIT team got
the Agripada police station in Mumbai leaving a city mosque. He was en-route- reliable information about the wherea-
and informed that he had gone missing. to a railway station and said to escape bouts of Dr Ansari in Kanpur. The Kan-
The family informed that he went for Nepal but was nabbed by the Special pur SIT team led by Dy.SP T.V. Singh, Sub
morning Namaz around 5 am but did Task Force (STF) of the UP police due to Inspector Ghanshyam Yadav and two
of the various states about Dr. Ansari “ Ansari, originally a mosque and recovered 47,780 from
Constable Chandra Prakash and Abdul
not return since then. His mobile went
its strict vigil and alert.
Kadir detained him while coming out of
switched off.
his possession with a dairy, Aadhaar
he Agripada police then sent an
a resident of UP's
SOS alert at the police control
Card, mobile phone and a pocket dairy.
Dr Ansari’s father was labourer and
T room about Ansari and at the
Sant Kabir Nagar
had six brothers. He has done medi-
same time Maharashtra ATS, Crime
district who holds a MBBS
Branch were also pressed into service
cal studies from Sion Medical College
to track him. Soon alert massages start-
ed flashing in the police control rooms degree, may have been
he came in contact with terrorist Tunda.
“The Maharashtra ATS took away An-
sari after procuring his transit remand
jumping parole and could commit ter- trying to leave the country Mumbai and done MBBS in 1982. Later
ror attacks. through the Nepal route. He and took him away him under its cus-
Dr Jalees Ansari “Dr. Bomb” con- is serving a life term and is tody forproper interrogated before be-
victed life term in connection with ing sent back to prison to resume his life
Jaipur, Ajmer and Malegaon blast cases. suspected to be involved in sentence,” he said. “The priority is to find
He was one of the radicalized terror- over 50 bomb blast cases out if anyone was helping him to cross
ists, who had undergone terror train- the border into Nepal so action can be
ing in Pakistan in the early nineties. across the country. The taken against them. We need to find out
Professionally Dr Ansari was a doctor how he was planning to get into Nepal
working with the BMC (Brihanmum- 68-year-old was allegedly and what his later plans were.”
bai Municipal Corporation) residing in connected with terror The officer also said the ATS would
Mominpada in Mumbai. Later another be seeking Ansari’s custody so that he
terrorist Abdul KarimTunda indoctri- outfits and taught can be interrogated before being sent
nated him. terror groups how back to prison to resume his life sen-
The module created by Ansari was “ tence. He said, “The priority is to find
responsible for carrying out several to make bombs. out if anyone was helping him to cross
serial blasts across the country to the border into Nepal so action can be
avenge the demolition of Babri Mas- taken against them. We need to find out
jid. Blasts had been carried out in Overwhelmed DG Police O. P. Singh how he was planning to get into Nepal
Hyderabad, Malegaon, Ajmer, Pune, told in a hurriedly called press con- and what his later plans were.”
Rajdhani Express and various other ference, “Jalees Ansari has been ar- The ATS has found out that Ansari
places across the country. Ansari is con- rested when he was coming out from went to Kanpur hoping to secure help
sidered as a mastermind and expert in a mosque. It is a big achievement of from two childhood friends. However, it
making of TNT and timer bombs. He UP Police.” An ATS officer Maharashtra was only after he visited their residenc-
was released on parole from the Ajmer briefed, “We have received transit cus- es that he learnt that one of them had
prison on court’s orders last month on tody of Ansari for three days. During passed away a year ago and the other
December 28. this period, we have to bring him back one was not present in Kanpur. Ansari
Ansari was responsible for creating to Mumbai and produce him before a then made inquiries about viable travel
a module with the banned outfits SIMI local court. An ATS team took him to options to enter Nepal, but he was inter-
(Students Islamic Movement of India), Mumbai on Saturday night.” cepted and arrested, police said.
Huji (Harkatul Mujahideen) and Indian DGP OP Singh directed IG STF Am-
Mujahideen (IM) which had radical- itabh Yash to seal the border areas ad- LETTERS@TEHELKA.COM

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