Top SIMI leaders held by Spl Task Force in Indore
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All India General Secretary of SIMI Safdar Nagori
Special Task Force (STF) of Madhya Pradesh Police today achieved a major breakthrough when they caught hold of All India General Secretary of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Safdar Nagori in the city. He was arrested along with SIMI's southern zone chief, Qibli, with ten other members of the banned student organisation.
Police sources said that security agencies had been on Nagori's trail for a while and finally managed to track down the SIMI men, following a tip-off from intelligence agencies. The activists are being interrogated for further leads and some arms have also been seized from the spot of the arrests. The crackdown has come against SIMI just a week after Minister of State for Home, Sriprakash Jaiswal told the Lok Sabha that the banned outfit and its associates were planning serial blasts in the country and the Centre has extended its ban imposed on SIMI for another two years. Before his arrest, Nagori had been named in a First Information Report (FIR) for Unlawful Activities, registered at the New Friends Colony Police station in South Delhi and was declared a proclaimed offender in the case. He has been absconding since September 27, 2001. Nagori is alleged to have established links with the operatives of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan's external intelligence agency, and other Islamist fundamentalist leaders in a bid to revive SIMI cadres under the umbrella of a different outfit.
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