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Surrender sop for Maoists up 25 times

Vishwa Mohan,TNN | Mar 5, 2013, 06.02AM IST

NEW DELHI: Surrender will become more lucrative for Maoists across the country from April 1. The finance ministry has approved the home ministry's proposal to increase its share of financial contribution for each surrendered ultra by 25 times for senior Maoists and 15 times for foot soldiers.

A senior ultra (politburo member or state/zonal/district committee commander) will get Rs 2.5 lakh, while a junior cadre will get Rs 1.5 lakh as one-time payment once they surrender.

The amount will be more if the ultras surrender with arms, depending on the kind of weapons they lay down. Besides, the surrendered ultras will get an additional Rs 3,000 per month — an increase of Rs 1,000 from the existing amount — for 36 months.

"Though the states are free to offer more to the surrendered Maoists, the Centre will reimburse to the tune of Rs 2.5 lakh and Rs 1.5 lakh as one-time payment for senior and junior cadre, respectively, under the home ministry's Security Related Expenditure (SRE) scheme," said a senior home ministry official.

He said the reimbursement would also be meant for monthly stipend for Maoists, irrespective of their seniority, for 36 months (Rs 1.08 lakh for each surrendered ultra), as well as maximum Rs 30,000 for those who turn in their weapons.

An ultra can be offered additional incentive of Rs 30,000 for each deposited light machine gun (LMG), Rs 25,000 for each rocket-propelled grenade/sniper rifle, Rs 15,000 for AK 47/56/74 rifle, Rs 5,000 for each high frequency communication set and Rs 3,000 for each pistol or revolver — no matter whether they come over-ground with 'looted' police weapons or with arms which were procured from elsewhere (via smuggling).

Sharing these details with senior police officials, including DGPs and chief secretaries of naxal-affected states, in a meeting on Monday, home secretary RK Singh is learnt to have asked them to encourage Maoists to join the mainstream by availing the added incentives that will be provided under the new surrender-cum-rehabilitation policy.

"Although all Naxal-affected states have been giving incentives to surrendered Maoists, the finance ministry's approval to increase the Centre's share under SRE scheme for this purpose will help cash-strapped states to go for implementing the surrender policy more vigorously," said an official.

Besides giving its nod to the revised surrender-cum-rehabilitation policy of the home ministry, the finance ministry has also approved the proposal to increase community policing fund from existing Rs 5 lakh per district per annum to Rs 10 lakh per district per annum.

The community policing - involving citizens for day-to-day non-core policing in coordination with local police and initiating confidence building measures within the local community — fund is earmarked for 106 districts, which are covered under the SRE scheme.

Expenditure under the scheme is first incurred by the state government and thereafter reimbursed by the Centre. However, 25% advance of the approved annual work plan outlay is provided to the state governments concerned in the beginning of fiscal for its smooth implementation..................http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JQ0gvMjAxMy8wMy8wNSNBcjAxMDAw&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom

Parliamentary Committee's suggestions make sense ....

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Make sexual ragging a cognizable offence: House panel

Vishwa Mohan,TNN | Mar 2, 2013, 05.46AM IST

NEW DELHI: A parliamentary committee which reviewed the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill inserting stringent punishment for sexual offences on Friday recommended making ragging with sexual overtones in educational institutions a cognizable offence as it felt that limiting punishment to rustication and other disciplinary acts was not enough. It also suggested that mercy petitions of death row convicts be disposed of within three months of receiving such pleas.

Highlighting how minor offences sometimes led to major crimes, the panel said that though the act of ragging often started with bullying of freshers by seniors, at times, it acquired sexual overtones causing deep embarrassment to students of both sexes.

"Therefore, it should be made cognizable offence with punishment attracting provisions under criminal law, particularly for instances where ragging takes the overtones of sexual harassment/assault," the parliamentary standing committee on home said.

The committee agreed with almost all provisions of the recent ordinance on criminal law including capital punishment for rapists-murderers and repeat offenders.

It also urged the government to dispose of mercy petitions of death row convicts within three months. The committee noted that delay in clearing mercy petitions was being used by convicts to demand commuting their death sentence to life imprisonment in courts.

As reported by TOI earlier, the committee said the president should not consider mercy petitions of rapists-murderers. It suggested that the government make public the reasons for commuting death sentence of such convicts to life imprisonment if it was done in certain circumstances.

After tabling the report in Parliament, committee chairman M Venkaiah Naidu said the panel had wanted to know the reasons behind former president Pratibha Patil commuting the death sentence of rape and murder convicts. He added that since the home ministry refused to share the details citing privilege in discussions between the home minister and the then president, the committee suggested that the government "make the reasons public".

Going beyond the provisions of the ordinance, the panel suggested incorporating Justice J S Verma committee's recommendation to punish officers for their failure to prevent rapes by men serving under their "command". It said superior officers should be held responsible in case a crime committed by his subordinate was in his knowledge and he does not take any timely action. "Omission of such acts on the part of superior officer must be recorded in his official dossier/ACR," the panel said.

The committee also urged the government to frame guidelines so that women are not portrayed in poor light through "obscene, vulgar pictures or scenes".

Suggesting increasing the number of women in police, the panel said the strength of women in police forces should be at least 33% of the total. It asked home ministry to impress upon state governments to take suitable measures in this regard.

Supporting the bill to make acid attacks a specific offence, the committee recommended that in case the convict failed to pay compensation to the victim, the Centre and the state government should make steps to rescue the victim.

Despite suggestions by several members, the panel decided against recommending a relook at the age of juveniles as the home ministry said the matter was being examined by the women and child development ministry. "I raised the issue ... there were opinions that the age of juveniles should be reduced from 18 to 16 years," Naidu said.

Going beyond its mandate to recommend changes in the bill, the panel also suggested improving courts' infrastructure and said adequate funds should be earmarked for setting up fast-track courts..................http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JTS8yMDEzLzAzLzAyI0FyMDEzMDI=&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom

Parliamentary Committee goes a step ahead .... rapists-murderers don't deserve Presidential pardon

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Ignore mercy pleas of rapist-murderers: Panel

Vishwa Mohan,TNN | Feb 28, 2013, 12.34AM IST

NEW DELHI: Two months after questioning the rationale behind commuting death sentences of five rape-murder convicts to life imprisonment during then President Pratibha Patil's tenure, a Parliamentary committee has now suggested that the mercy petitions should not be considered for such criminals.

Though the Committee is not in favour of completely knocking out the provision of mercy plea for convicts like those on death row, it wants the government to spell out reasons for grant of pardon.

The Parliament Standing Committee on home affairs -- which finalized its report on the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2012 on Tuesday - also recommended the government to expeditiously dispose off any mercy petition.

Besides, the panel has favoured death sentence for rapists in case the victim dies or is left comatose. It has also agreed to replace the word 'rape' with 'sexual assault' - in sync with the Ordinance on criminal law that was promulgated by President Pranab Mukherjee on February 3 - and suggested including all clauses on capital punishment in the new Bill.

Sources in the home ministry said that the government will withdraw the pending Bill and introduce new Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2013, in Parliament next month. The new Bill, replacing the Ordinance, will incorporate these provisions.

Though the matter concerning mercy pleas was not part of the panel's mandate, it is learnt to have suggested in the wake of strong objections raised by a few members over commutation of death sentence of five rapist-murderers to life imprisonment by President Patil between 2010 and 2012.

Members of the Committee - headed by BJP Rajya Sabha member M Venkaiah Naidu - had on December 27, 2012, referred to four cases involving five rapist-murderers while questioning the government's decision.

The cases include that of Uttar Pradesh's Bantu, who was convicted for raping and killing a five-year-old girl. His mercy petition was disposed off in his favour by President Patil last June. Among others whose death sentences were commuted include Moloi Ram and Santosh Yadav of Madhya Pradesh in February 2011, Satish of UP (May, 2012) and Dharmender Singh (June, 2010).

The last such criminal was hanged in the country was West Bengal's Dhananjoy Chatterjee in August, 2004. He was found guilty of raping and killing a 14-year-old girl in 1990.

Under Article 72 of the Constitution, the President's clemency powers can only be exercised under the government's advice. "The President shall have the power to grant pardons, reprieves, respites or remissions of punishment or to suspend, remit or commute the sentence of any person convicted of any offence," the Article says..............http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JTS8yMDEzLzAyLzI4I0FyMDEzMDE=&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom

Indian Mujahideen .... faces of terror are hiding in Pakistan

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Four IM men targeting India in return for ISI hospitality

Vishwa Mohan,TNN | Feb 26, 2013, 01.14AM IST

NEW DELHI: They had fled to Pakistan to escape the long arm of the law in India. Now, they are plotting terror strikes on India with unflinching regularity as a trade-off for their own safety.

Four top Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives - Riyaz Bhatkal, Iqbal Bhatkal, Amir Raza Khan and Fayyaz Kagzi - have been enjoying Pakistani spy agency ISI's hospitality with a quid pro quo of carrying out attacks on their homeland.

The rein of IM's terror machines is in the hands of the quartet, who have been operating through their commanders, including head of India operation Yasin Bhatkal, in various Indian cities.

Besides, there are others who keep shuttling between Pakistan (mainly Karachi) and Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia and UAE) on Pakistani passports. Their job is to establish contact with Indians who have been working in those countries, and are tasked with developing them as unsuspecting conduits to send remittances to India. The funds are used for creating sleeper cells for plotting future strikes.

They have been working in sync with the charter of the IM that was set up by ISI as an Indian proxy of the Pakistani terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) to project to the world at large that terrorism in India is homegrown in both form and content. Consequently, most of the recruits in IM are Indians, who have been reporting to their bosses in Pakistan.

Indian security agencies, however, suspect that eight out of 15 key IM absconders continue to be in the country. "Couple of them must be in Nepal and keep coming to India," said a senior government official, adding India had shared dossiers on these fugitives with both Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

Though Saudi Arabia had cooperated and helped deport three terrorists, including Abu Jundal (26\11 Mumbai terror attack accused) of LeT and Fasih Mohammed (IM operative), Pakistan has been in denial over the presence of Indian fugitives on its soil.

Faces of terror

Amir Reza Khan: The mobster of Kolkata (36) who along with the American Centre attack convict Aftab Ansari and two Bhatkal brother - Iqbal and Riyaz - had formed IM and been instrumental in carrying out a numbers of attacks across the country between 2005 and 2008. After fleeing India, he used to operate from Dubai, Riyadh and Oman. But, later he had shifted his base to Pakistan and largely confined to Karachi under ISI patronage after an Interpol Red Corner Notice (RCN) issued against him.

Riyaz Bhatkal: An engineer by profession, the Karnataka-born terrorist (36) had lived in Kurla, Mumbai, where he used to run a tannery business of his father before turning to the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). He was known to Mohammed Sadique Israr Sheikh, a known criminal who worked for both Amir Reza and Aftab Ansari. He had fled India in 2008, when his name first cropped up in Bangalore and Ahmedabad blasts the same year.

Iqbal Bhatkal: Elder brother of Riyaz, Iqbal (44) is considered an IM ideologue, who was responsible for the August, 2007 serial blasts in Hyderabad along with his younger brother. He is a master in imparting instructions via electronic means to the terror outfit's cadres without leaving a trail. He is the one who has been supplying written\pictorial materials to the cadres to motivate them to carry out attacks on Indian soil.

Fayyaz Kagzi alias Abu Amir: He is the youngest (31) among the top four IM fugitives who have been running the show from Karachi. Originally a resident of Beed in Maharashtra, Kagzi was involved in a blast at Ahmedabad railway station. He had fled to Pakistan via Iran after his name cropped up in the Aurangabad arms haul case in 2006. Later, he had shifted his base to Saudi Arabia in 2008. He again moved to Pakistan when Saudi authorities had started cooperating with India in identifying and deporting Indian fugitives........................http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JUFUvMjAxMy8wMi8yNiNBcjAxMDAw&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom

IM - Indian Mujahideen

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Indian Mujahideen's jihad factory alive and kicking

Vishwa Mohan,TNN | Feb 23, 2013, 02.20AM IST

Getting continuous support from the Pakistani spy agency ISI, the Indian Mujahideent has enough resources to make its presence felt at regular intervals through attacks in different cities.
NEW DELHI: Indian Mujahideen, Pakistani terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba's proxy in India, may have been down after the August 2012 Pune serial blasts but it's certainly not out as it has the capacity to regroup after every clampdown. The Hyderabad incident has once again proved that the banned group is not only alive but also kicking through its potent sleeper cells in different states.

Getting continuous support from the Pakistani spy agency ISI, the outfit has enough resources to make its presence felt at regular intervals through attacks in different cities. Its supply lines of explosives, detonators and micro chips are intact and it can attack anywhere in the country with as much ease as it did during its peak in 2007-08 when it carried out blasts in Lucknow, Faizabad, Varanasi, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Delhi.

A Delhi Police dossier, prepared after last year's Pune blasts and shared with the home ministry in September, shows that the terror outfit has modules in Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Delhi where it recruited cadre during the lull of 2009. It came to action again in 2010 when it attacked German Bakery in Pune and carried out a shootout and blast outside Jama Masjid in Delhi.

The dossier, shared with all states, says the IM's top leaders - Amir Raza Khan and Bhatkal brothers (Iqbal and Riyaz) - are currently in Pakistan while others have safe hideouts in Saudi Arabia, Nepal and the UAE (Dubai and Sharjah). Khan and the Bhatkal brothers were among the founding members of the outfit which later took in its fold almost all the cadres of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).

The dossier says that IM - which was set up by ISI to camouflage its own footprint and project to the world that Islamic terrorism in India was indigenous in character and content - has "substantial corpus of money", having funding sources based in Kuwait, Riyadh, Chicago and different cities in Pakistan.

Even though a number of operatives were arrested in 2011-12 by Delhi, Maharashtra and Gujarat police, 15 key absconders - Yasin Bhatkal, Shahnawaz, Abu Rashid, Abdus Subham Qureshi, Tehsin and Mirza Shadab Bai among them - have been carrying out operations under the guidance of their bosses in Pakistan.

Calling IM a "start to finish jihad factory", the dossier highlighted that "innocuous religious platforms" like Quran Foundation, Pune and Islamic Guidance Centre, Mangalore were among institutions from where foot soldiers were recruited, which included disenchanted Muslim youth ranging from petty criminals to highly paid software professionals. It noted how the outfit had recruited its prized operative -- Mansoor Ali Mohammed Peerbhoy -- while he was studying Arabic at the Quran Foundation.

Peerbhoy, a Yahoo techie-turned-media chief of the terror outfit who was arrested in 2008, had brought in a number of educated youth to the IM's fold. Recruitments of Arif Badar, IED assembly and micro chip-based timer expert, and Mobin, internet hacking expert, were testimony of how talented ones were identified and trained as terrorists through fiery and emotive 'taqrirs' (speech) and attitude hardening 'dars' (lessons).

It was noted that "brainwashing through doctored pictorials and videos, such as that of Godhra and Babri Masjid incidents" was very common in these 'taqrirs' and 'dars'.

Use of 'social networking sites' for sending personalized messages and motivating vulnerable youth had also come to the notice of investigating agencies, prompting them to suggest setting up "massive and sophisticated surveillance infrastructure" in the country.

Though the IM came to notice for the first time when it sent emails to media houses before the serial blasts in Faizabad, Lucknow and Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh in November 2007, its genesis - the dossier says - goes back to the year 2000 when the underworld network was roped in to organize talent spotting, motivation and training of Indian youth at the facilities of LeT and ISI.................http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JUFUvMjAxMy8wMi8yMyNBcjAxNDAw&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom

Yet another alert post-twin blast in Hyderabad - security lapse despite an intelligence input

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Indian Mujahideen hand becomes clearer in Hyderabad blasts

Bharti Jain, Deeptiman Tiwary & Vishwa Mohan,TNN | Feb 23, 2013, 01.06AM IST

The bombs carried the signature of Indian Mujahideen. Both devices were packed with ammonium nitrate and shrapnel with a timer mechanism: the staple of IM bomb-makers.
NEW DELHI: As investigators trawl the devastated spots in Hyderabad's Dilsukhnagar for clues to Thursday's twin blasts, a debate has begun in the home ministry over whether the terror attack could have been prevented.

According to reports reaching here, there is no breakthrough yet for the investigators. "We are still groping in the dark," a senior home ministry official familiar with the details of the probe said. However, there was relief after it turned out that some of the CCTV cameras in the ill-fated locality were functional at the time of the explosions on Thursday evening and, therefore, might be holding pointers.

Senior sources disputed reports that the wires of CCTV cameras had been snapped four days ago.

The MHA had fewer doubts on Friday about the involvement of Indian Mujahideen in the attack. The bombs carried the signature of IM. Both the devices were packed with ammonium nitrate and shrapnel with a timer mechanism: the staple of IM bomb-makers. The use of cycles to strap bombs has also been an IM trademark since November 2007 when they attacked courts in UP.

Both bombs were designed to ensure that the impact of explosions was concentrated on one side: again a stock in trade for IM which has used boat-shaped devices earlier in order to maximize casualties.

Faced with allegations of intelligence failure in Parliament, home minister Sushilkumar Shinde pointed out that the Centre has issued a series of alerts to authorities in Hyderabad about a possible terrorist reprisal against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.

The first advisory went out on Saturday, alerting states against the threat of United Jehad Council to launch a fresh terror campaign against India to avenge Guru's hanging. The message was amplified by Lashkar chief Hafiz Saeed.

Although the first alert was general in nature, intelligence agencies, acting on basis of intercepts, refined it to caution that Hyderabad, along with Mumbai, Bangalore, Coimbatore and Hubli and certain places in Gujarat and Maharashtra, could be on the hit list of terrorists desperate to make good their threat.

This message highlighting the threat to Hyderabad was sent on February 19. The following day, Intelligence Bureau asked the states to step up vigil at places which were known to be on the radar of terrorists and had been recced.

Centre's concern, prompted by clear inputs according to Shinde, that a terrorist strike could be in the works manifested itself again on February 20, when it repeated that Hyderabad could be among the likely targets along with other places.

The same anxiety led the government to sound the same alert anew on Thursday morning just eight hours before the bombs went off in Hyderabad, killing at least 16 and maiming many more.

Dilsukhnagar fitted the bill, having been surveyed by an IM module as recently as last year. Delhi Police had on the basis of testimonies of two alleged IM terrorists, Syed Maqbool and Imran, told Andhra authorities that the locality was recceed as recently in July last year.

Sources in the home ministry said that the emphasis on the sites which had already been reconnoitered reflected the assessment that the terrorists were under pressure to do something spectacular sooner than later and, hence, focussed on locales they were already familiar with.

Centre refrained from blaming the state government, with Shinde saying in Rajya Sabha that the calm professionalism of AP cops was worth emulating. But many in his own ministry wondered whether cops could have prevented the carnage by upping their guard in response to a series of advisories. There was also puzzlement about the reasons why they failed to do so despite the fact that terrorists had targeted the same spot in 2007.

The last attempt failed only because the device planted by IM terrorists failed to go off, sparing the locality the devastation caused by the bombs the same module led by Riyaz Bhatkal had planted at Gokul Chat Bhandar and Lumbini Park.

According to sources, one possible explanation could be the fatigue among cops over having to deal with the same kind of alerts over and over again. They said the counter-terror advisories issued in the wake of Guru's hanging were not different from those which were sent after Mumbai attacker Ajmal Kasab was sent to the gallows in November.

The alerts issued after Kasab's execution had mentioned Hyderabad along with Bangalore and Coimbatore among the vulnerable spots. Speaking in Rajya Sabha, Shinde emphasized that the Centre had strong reasons to hoist the caution sign higher after February 19 and afterwards. If this was the case, the authorities clearly failed to impress the urgency upon the men at ground zero

Sources said that the routine of having to respond to the same kind of cues repeatedly could not but lead to a dulling of response: a vulnerability which could be exploited by a terrorist group set on a particular target as has been the case with IM and Dilsukhnagar. The predominantly Hindu locality with a history of communal tension has been consistently targeted by terrorists since 1999 when they unsuccessfully planted a bomb there.

The terrorists returned again in 2002 when a bomb claimed two lives. Residents were lucky in 2007 when the bomb planted there did not go off, but the determined group had had their way on Thursday......................http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=Q0FQLzIwMTMvMDIvMjMjQXIwMDMwMA==&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom

Twin blasts in Hyderabad - February 21, 2013 - 12 days after AfzalGuru's hanging

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Hyderabad bomb blasts: Dilsukhnagar has been on Indian Mujahideen radar since 1999

Vishwa Mohan & Bharti Jain,TNN | Feb 22, 2013, 01.16AM IST

Dilsukhnagar, a Hindu-dominated locality with a history of communal tension, has been on the terrorists' radar for long; at least since 1999 when a bomb was planted near a Hanuman temple.

NEW DELHI: The twin blasts at Hyderabad are suspected to be the handiwork of Indian Mujahideen(IM) commander Riyaz Bhatkal. Although intelligence agencies are in no rush to jump to a judgment, their suspicion of IM's role is derived from the fact that the terror outfit had targeted precisely the same spot — near the foot overbridge in Dilsukhnagar — on August 25, 2007 when IM carried out serial blasts in Hyderabad.

While the bombs that Bhatkal and his team, essential IM's Pune module, set off at Gokul Chat Bhandar and Lumbini Park killed 42 people, Dilsukhnagar escaped the mayhem because the device planted there malfunctioned. Residents of the locality, however, ran out of luck on Thursday.

During their interrogation in 2008 in connection with their involvement in the serial attack on Hyderabad the year before, two members of IM — a Indian proxy of Lashkar-e-Taiba which was launched to cloak Pakistan's involvement in the terror campaign against India — confirmed that Bhatkal was the mastermind.

Speaking to reporters after the twin blasts on Thursday, home minister Sushilkumar Shinde seemed to reflect the principal assumption of the agencies about Bhatkal and his IM gang being the chief suspects when he said the latest attack was similar to the 2007 serial attacks in the city.

The suspicion is derived also from the testimony of the three alleged IM terrorists to Delhi Police in October 2012. Imran, Tabrez and Maqbool told the special cell that they had been assigned by Bhatkal to do a recce of Dilsukhnagar and other communally sensitive areas in Hyderabad.

The motivation for the terror strike is suspected to be the call given by Hafiz Saeed — Lashkar chief and principal mentor of IM terrorists — to avenge the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. United Jehad Council, with Lashkar as one of its main constituents, had on February 13 — four days after Guru was sent to the gallows — vowed to retaliate against the execution.

Intelligence agencies did not treat it as rhetoric, and did sound a countrywide alert on Tuesday, although Shinde acknowledged that the warning was general in nature.

Dilsukhnagar, a Hindu-dominated locality with a history of communal tension, has been on the terrorists' radar for long; at least since 1999 when a bomb was planted near a Hanuman temple. The device was detected in time by police.

The timing was significant, just an year after intelligence agencies zeroed in on Abdul Saleem Junaid. A Pakistani, Junaid was launched into India by Lashkar commander Azam Cheema. While Junaid, who was designated as the head of Lashkar in India, was supposed to be based in Delhi, he found Hyderabad more hospitable and settled down there after marrying a local girl.

The cover of a regular couple proved useful for setting up several sleeper cells, at least a few comprising Pakistanis.

The terror group targeted Dilsukhnagar again in 2002, planting a bomb near the Saibaba temple killing two persons.

The choice of Dilsukhnagar is no accident and fits in the pattern of IM attacks. The terror module has so chosen the day and timing of its attacks as to ensure that the majority community bore the brunt: something which dates to the 1993 serial blasts in Mumbai and which is meant to exacerbate communal tension.

Shine, along with home secretary R K Singh, are leaving for Hyderabad on Friday morning for an on-the-spot assessment. There is also going to be a probe into whether Delhi Police shared the specific information about Bhatkal persisting with his plans against Dilsukhnagar with their counterparts in Hyderabad and, in case they did, what did the latter do to fend off the attempt......................http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JUFUvMjAxMy8wMi8yMiNBcjAwMTA1&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom