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Police raid in Azamgarh

Atiq Khan

LUCKNOW: A team of the Mumbai police crime branch (Lower Parel) on Friday raided the residence of Abu Rashid, a suspected Indian Mujahideen operative allegedly involved in a serial bomb blast case, at Sanjarpur village in Uttar Pradesh.

The raid, which commenced around 7.15 a.m., lasted for about 45 minutes, but Rashid was not found in the village in Azamgarh district.

Uttar Pradesh ADG (Law and Order) Brij Lal said here that the raid was conducted to arrest Rashid in connection with the case filed in Mumbai’s Matunga police station under Sections of the Indian Penal Code, the Arms Act and the Explosives Act. Mr. Lal said the other five accused — Afzal, Mohammad Sadiq, Mohammad Arif, Mohammad Zakir and Asrar Ahmed — were arrested. While Afzal belonged to the adjacent Mau district, Mohd. Sadiq and Mohd. Arif were from Para village in the Sarai Mir police station area in Azamgarh.

Mohd. Zakir was from Kaura Gehui in the Sarai Mir police station area and Asrar Ahmed belonged to Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh. They were based in Mumbai, Thane and Bhiwandi in Maharashtra.

A resident of Sanjarpur claimed that Rashid, 25, left for Mumbai on September 24 following reports that his elder brother, Talib, 33, had been picked up by the Lower Parel crime branch team.

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