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LeT suspects left car with Malegaon doc

LeT suspects left car with Malegaon doc

Author: Times News Network
Publication: The Times of India
Date: May 15, 2006

The five Malegaon men arrested on Saturday in the Aurangabad arms case include Afzal Khan, Mushtaque Ahmed, Riyaz Ahmed alias Raju and Javed Ahmed, besides the homoeopathic doctor Shareef Shabbir. Sources said they are alleged synipathisers of the banned organisation Students' Islamic Movement of India.

They were produced before a holiday court and remanded to police custody till May 24. One of the arrested Abdul Azim alias Raja told investigators that he and others, including Ansari, escaped in the Indica and took it to a homoeopathic doctor's house at Islam Nagar in Malegaon. They left the car at the residence of the doctor who runs a clinic and a chemist's shop, Moti Medical, at Aman Chowk in Malegaon.

Sources in Dr Shabbir's family told TOI that two acquintances of the doctor had met him on Tuesday and asked him if they could park their car at his residence since "they had two vehicles with them". They told Shabbir they would pick up the vehicle after a few days.

The duo also handed over the car keys to Shabbir and he drove the car around town for three days. Family sources said when the doctor realised that something sinister was involved, he abandoned the car near the spinning mills at the border of Malegaon on Friday Police recovered the car on Friday night.

ATS sources said a police team went to the doctor's house on Saturday and he revealed that four other men accompanied him while he drove the Indica around town. All five were then arrested.

Shabbir, a father of two, did LCEH, a homeopathy course, from Mumbai University a decade ago. He reportedly met the prime accused, Ansari, while studying in Mumbai.

Riyaz runs a cycle repair shop in Malegaon and Afzal, Mushtaque and Javed are said to be car thieves. They have been arrested for abetting a crime. "I don't want to reveal their role. Its premature to say anything at this moment," joint commissioner of police (ATS) K P Raghuvanshi said.

On Saturday, police had also found 50 grenades, an AK47 and 200 bullets under a culvert in Manmad. Sources said the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was planning a series of blasts in Mumbai, but Raghuvanshi denied having such information. Police sources said a part of the seized consignment was headed for Jammu, while another was being routed to Naxalite areas in Andhra Pradesh.

The ATS suspect the presence of more RDX and explosives and are flushing out LeT hideouts in Aurangabad and Marathwada.


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