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| LeT operative got Rs 10K from Pak to buy SIM cards |
| 2008-06-18 |
| The Lashkar-e-Taiba had sent money to Gujarat to fund the telecommunications of an operative, Shahnawaz Bhatti, lodged at the Sabarmati Central Jail. This amount, though a paltry Rs 10,000, was used by an accused, Nizar Rajwani to procure a SIM card. Bhatti had used the SIM card to make calls to LeT headquarters in Pakistan. Nizar was arrested recently by the crime branch. Crime branch sleuths said that Bhatti had actually called up Azam Chima of LeT who is said to be the mastermind of many terrorist attacks in western parts of India. The money was sent to Nizar through an illegal, international money transfer service. He used the money to buy SIM cards and the rest of the money was with Bhatti. Bhatti, an LeT member, was arrested from Kutch in July 2001 after he crossed over illegally. Nizar was convicted of rape and lodged in the same jail for years. He was released only a couple of months back. 'We got a tip-off about Bhatti's accomplice Nizar Rajwani, 26, a resident of Dhoraji, Junagadh, who supplied him four SIM cards and the money in jail premises. When Bhatti was frisked, he was found in possession of Rs 4,400. Rajwani later told us that he got the money through an international money transfer company situated in Ranavav. He then paid Rs 1,100 for one SIM card as he bought it without providing for any identity proof,' said a senior crime branch official. Bhatti had also lent his SIM cards to other prisoners who made calls outside the state. Police officials are right now in process of procuring the data from the service provider companies. Crime branch officials, working on a tip-off provided by the central IB, found that Bhatti was conspiring with LeT operatives to help him stage a jail break. |
| Posted by:Fred |