Hyderabad, Jan 18 (Inditop.com) Hyderabad police Monday arrested an alleged terror operative belonging to Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami (HUJI) and chief of the outfit’s operations in south India.
The police, which produced him before media, claimed that Abdul Khwaja alias Amjad was arrested in Afzal Gunj area here.
Hyderabad police Commissioner B. Prasada Rao told reporters that Amjad had undergone training in Pakistan and was involved in the bomb blast at Police Commissioner’s Task Force office here five years ago.
One policeman was killed in the blast at the Task Force office in the high-security Begumpet area here on Oct 12, 2005. Dalin, a Bangladeshi, was also killed in the suspected suicide attack.
Amjad also has links with Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), the police commissioner said.
A native of Hyderabad, Amjad had gone to Pakistan via Saudi Arabia in 2003 to undergo training with the help of Shahid Bilal, also a native of Hyderabad and involved in several terror operations in south India.
After the killing of Bilal in a gunfight in Pakistan in 2007, Amjad moved to Bangladesh and became active with HUJI.
Police said he was also involved in circulation of fake Indian currency. “We have information that he and his associates pumped in fake Indian currency worth Rs.1 crore,” the police chief said.
Amjad told police that they carried out a bomb attack at Task Force office to take revenge for the killing of Mujahid Saleem, a city youth, by a team of Gujarat police here in 2004. The youth was killed when a few supporters of a cleric tried to prevent the police team from taking him to Gujarat in connection with the murder of former Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya.
“They planned to attack the offices of Director General of Police, the police commissioner and the Task Force but picked the Task Force as it was an easy target for them,” the commissioner said.
