Author: Pioneer News Service
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: November 8, 2008
The police held searches in the houses of
the relatives of Ibrahim Moulvi of Vellamunda, Wayanad, believed to be one
of the top ideological instructors of the LeT in Malabar region. The houses
raided included Ibrahim's ancestral home and his sister's house in Varampatta,
Wayanad.
The house was rented out to Shafaz from Thayyil,
Kannur by owner Moythutti, Mottathu on the instruction of Anthru, a friend
of Ibrahim Moulvi. It was mysterious that Anthru had arranged this house for
the stay of the suspects despite the fact that he had his own quarters, police
said.
According to the police, two women named Nusaiba
and Ayisha had been staying with Shafaz and that both had to go out wearing
purdah. It was also reported that Nusaiba, who was pregnant, could have been
from Hyderabad and could speak only Hindi while in Varampatta. They also sealed
the house in Varampatta, where certain people connected to Ibrahim had been
living on rent.
Officials said that those who had stayed at
this rented house for 20 days saying they were teaching at a college in Padinjarethara
had left the place with the intensification of the police operations against
terror elements. The police suspected that Ibrahim Moulvi, who had made Kannur
his base for terror operations, had fled for Hyderabad, where LeT had been
running camps for training terror recruits.
