ATS quizzes Congress leader over Pune blast

The Pune Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) allegedly detained Arif Pathan, 42, a Congress leader from Kalyan in connection with the German Bakery blast in Pune. Pathan was reportedly picked up on March 3 and interrogated by the Pune ATS for two days.

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Arif Pathan

A team of Pune police picked up Pathan from the Congress office in Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) premises. An officer identified as Joshi and some other ATS officers had come to Kalyan to detained Pathan.

When contacted, Rajendra Joshi, a police inspector from the Pune Crime Branch said, “I went to Kanyakumari, not Kalyan.”

However a dairy maintained at the Bazarpeth Police Station in Kalyan clearly mentions about the Pune ATS picking up Pathan for inquiries. The ATS officers remained tight-lipped about the reason why Pathan was picked up.

Police sources said that a team of Congress leaders met a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) at Pune and wanted to know about Pathan’s activities.

The DCP assured the delegation that Pathan would picked up just for interrogation. “Yes, the Pune ATS had picked up Pathan and taken him to Pune,” confirmed Bhujangrao Shinde, DCP Kalyan.

Pathan is a transport committee member in KDMC. He had also contested for the President’s post for the Transport Committee Elections on March 3 but he lost.

He has also served as the personal assistant of Congress MLC Sanjay Dutt from Kalyan. Sources from the Pune ATS said that they have picked up two suspects from the Janawadi area in Pimpri Chinchwad.

One of the suspects is believed to be associated with Indian Mujahideen leader Riyaz Bhatkal. Pathan’s name cropped up when the cops were interrogating these two suspects.

Despite repeated attempts, Pathan was not available for comments as his cellphone was switched off. The detention of Pathan has left the Congress leaders in Kalyan red faced. On Friday a majority of them had switched off their cellphones to avoid the media.

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Congress Leaders Visit and Help Terrorists, Not Victims

[/FONT]The reports have come in plenty that several Congress leaders and activists of some other ‘secular parties’ have visited and helped terrorists and their families. There was the report that soon after the Delhi shoot-out at Jamia Nagar (Batla House) where an award winner Police Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma also died, some Congress and other politicians visited the homes of the terrorists that were killed in the shoot-out.

A few months earlier, the notoriously controversial politician, Lalu Prasad had also visited families of some militants. To my knowledge, these political celebrities did not have any time to visit and console, help and support the families of victims.
Some Congress leaders had also doubted that it was a ‘real’ gun battle or merely a fake encounter. It was a disgraceful act on the part of those who doubted and cast aspersions on the ‘Shaheed’ Inspector Sharma despite the fact that even the Human Rights Organization had given its opinion confirming it was a real encounter and suspected terrorists were shot dead.

Among those who had directly or indirectly doubted the encounter are the senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh who the other day visited the families of killed terrorists in a UP town; he also had expressed his doubts about the encounter. He said the photo of one of the killed terrorists shows that he was hit in the head which doesn’t happen in an encounter. After scathing criticism, he hastened to clarify that he had no experience about investigating encounters and his opinion was not a definitive proof of anything that had happened.

Now another shocking news is that one of the captured terrorists has disclosed that he was helped by politicians and lawmakers to escape, flee and hide. According to media reports, the suspect, Shahzad Alam alias Pappu, reported to be a member of the ‘Indian Mujahideen’ arrested for his role in the 2008 serial blasts in the national capital, is said to have told the Police that he and other module members, including their chief Atif Amin, were to go to Pakistan in 2009 to receive training and meet IM founder Amir Reza Khan.

He also told police that he had fired a bullet at Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma, who was killed in the Batla House encounter on September 19, 2008.

Atif, who was killed in the encounter, had visited Pakistan several times and received arms training, Shahzad told cops in the latest revelations emerging since his arrest from Azamgarh on February 1. Atif had reportedly told Shahzad that he would be sent via sea route to Pakistan in March 2009 where he would meet the IM founder. Only two members of the module survived the encounter -- Shahzad and Junaid, who is still untraced.

Shahzad was on remanded in the custody of the special cell of Delhi Police in connection with the planting of a bomb at the India Gate Children's Park. The crime branch is also set to quiz the politicians -- a former MLA from Azamgarh and a Mumbai- -based politician -- who probably, gave Shahzad money when he and Junaid were on the run.

Shahzad's confessions about firing on inspector Sharma are likely to strengthen the Police case and refute the doubts about a ‘fake encounter.’ The IM bomber has reportedly said that he fired one bullet on Sharma using a .32 revolver. He and Junaid then fled from the L-18 flat and took a bus out of the area, then took another bus to Aligarh and onwards to Bulandshahr where they reportedly threw the weapon.
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Congress Leaders Visit and Help Terrorists, Not Victims


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New Delhi: In a shocking disclosure, Indian Mujahideen terror suspect Shahzad has claimed that he was aided by a former Delhi MLA after he escaped from Batla House.

As per a newspaper report, Shahzad Alam, who was arrested from the Sanjarpur village in Azamgarh, have told his interrogators that the ex-MLA (now based in Noida) provided him shelter and financial help needed to evade arrest after he managed to escaped from the Batla House shootout site on September 19, 2008.

Sources inside the Delhi Police crime branch have claimed that a Bihar-based former junior minister and a well known Mumbai politician also came to Alam’s rescue later.

Shahzad, who was handed over to Delhi Crime branch by the UP police on Tuesday, was taken to the Shaheen Bagh locality in South Delhi for identification of his hideouts.

As of now the intelligence officials are grilling him to get more details about IM’s activities, future intentions and its network in various states.
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Congress MLA admits funding Batla house terrorists
Mar 11, 2010

NEW DELHI: A former Azamgarh MLA on Thursday said two suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorists allegedly involved in Delhi serial blasts had met him at his residence and sought monetary help soon after they escaped from Batla House following an encounter.

Abdus Salam of Congress claimed Junaid alias Haris, whom he knew, came to his flat in Saba Apartments in Noida Sector 44 at around 4:30 pm on September 19, 2008 along with another person but he was not aware that they were involved in the blasts or the gun battle at Batla House in south Delhi.

Salam gave around Rs 1,500 to Junaid and another person whom the former MLA did not meet earlier. Salam said he remembers that Junaid told him that his name was Pappu.

Suspected IM terrorist Shahzad, police sources had earlier said, told his interrogators after his arrest on February one that he and Junaid had gone to the house of a former MLA from whom they got some money for travelling. Police had not named the politician.

Sources had said Shahzad had taken the names of three politicians, including one from Mumbai, who gave them money.

"They met me sometime between 4 and 4:30 pm on September 19, 2008. I knew Haris (Junaid) as he is the nephew of my friend. He used to call me uncle. He came with another person I could not recognise. Police say he is Shahzad," Salam said.

According to the Congress leader, Junaid told him that they needed money to go home. "I gave them Rs 1,400-1,500," he said.


Abu Azmi helped me, says Delhi blast suspect
2010-03-11

New Delhi: Delhi bomb blast suspect Shahzad reportedly told the police that two politicians helped him.

One of them is Samajwadi Party MP Abu Azmi.

Indian Mujahideen terrorist Shahzad, who is accused in the Delhi blasts and Batla House encounter, said Azmi helped him in his stay in Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh.

However, the Samajwadi Party said Azmi had denied the allegation. (Agencies)

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Abu Azmi which was in news few months back,as he was slapped & attacked by raj thackrey MNS MLAs in Maharashtra Assembly...after that 4 MNS MLAs suspended for attacking Abu Azmi

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and his chirkut son Farhan Azmi marries to Ayesha Takia

now madam & rahul baba will wont open their dirty mouth nor they will give any interview to any media channel regrading to this.