Bhatkal remanded to 12-day NIA custody

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India's premier investigating agency National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday got 12 days' custody of Yasin Bhatkal, one of the country's most wanted men and co-founder of Indian Mujahideen, to unravel the wide terrorist infrastructure he helped to build.

New Delhi (IANS): India's premier investigating agency National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday got 12 days' custody of Yasin Bhatkal, one of the country's most wanted men and co-founder of Indian Mujahideen, to unravel the wide terrorist infrastructure he helped to build.

NIA special judge IS Mehta also sent another Indian Mujahideen operative, Asadulla Akhtar alias Haddi, to 12 days' custody till Sep 10. Bhatkal and Akhtar were arrested Thursday from the India-Nepal border. Lodged in a high security jail near Bihar capital Patna, officials said Bhatkal, 30, and his associate spent a sleepless night."Both of them hardly slept at night, talked rarely but they ate food and drank adequate water...," said a police officer. "A team of NIA officials interrogated Bhatkal and Akhtar at the high security Bihar Military Police camp in Patna," he added.The two were brought to Delhi by a special plane.

Bhatkal tops the Delhi Police list of 15 most wanted terrorists involved in bombings across the country and is wanted by 12 state police for terror activities that killed scores and maimed hundreds. Bhatkal is reported to have told his interrogators he was living in Nepal for the past six months and had readied around 100 hardcore associates who could do anything at his bidding. As Indian intelligence agencies mounted their surveillance in the hunt for Bhatkal, sending Rs one lakh home as an 'eidi' (gift) to his wife before the Eid festival early this month perhaps proved to be his undoing and gave away the Nepal hideout of one of India's most wanted terrorists.

The transfer of money done through normal banking channels alerted sleuths of Intelligence Bureau(IB) whose suspicions were aroused on the possible plans by the co-founder of the banned Indian Mujahideen to enter India to indulge in terror attacks or flee from Nepal's Pokhra area.

Known as a ghost bomber, Yasin, who managed to give the slip to police after the terror attacks in which he was involved, told his interrogators that the money sent to his wife in India was meant for expenses for Eid festivities on August 9. Sources privy to the probe said Bhatkal told interrogators he was living in Nepal for the past six months and had readied around 100 hardcore associates who could do anything on his orders.

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Bhatkal remanded to 12-day NIA custody

India's premier investigating agency National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday got 12 days' custody of Yasin Bhatkal, one of the country's most wanted men and co-founder of Indian Mujahideen, to unravel the wide terrorist infrastructure he helped to build.

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