A senior police official said two of the five SIMI members who fled from Khandwa jail in Madhya Pradesh in October 2013, had attended a SIMI meeting in Kerala in 2007.
Police are trying to track down other SIMI activists who were part of the meeting to know of the whereabouts of the members of the Madhya Pradesh module.
Two other suspected SIMI activists hailing from Maharashtra, Shah Mudassir and Shoeb Ahmed Khan, who were arrested in Hyderabad in the last week of October, are now being grilled for leads.
A senior police officer in New Delhi said among those who fled from jail “is the main SIMI suspect Mehboob, a resident of Khandwa, who has eight cases against him in Madhya Pradesh.”
Agencies are also trying to track down Mehboob’s mother Najma Bi, “who is missing along with him,” said the officer.
(With additional reporting from Devesh K. Pandey in New Delhi)
