Daijiworld Media Network - Kasargod (SP)

Kasargod, Oct 30: The Kerala police have taken into custody about 37 persons from various parts of the state on the suspicion that they have links with the terrorists, who set off blasts in various Indian cities.

The intelligence team that is investgiating the blasts, has collected information from Mohammed Rafiq, arrested from Calicut Chittar, that he had carried explosives including the RDX to various places like Mangalore, Tiruvantapuram, Bepoor, Goa etc.,

During the operation, the policemen took into custody 25 persons from Cochin, 10 from Kannur and one each from Pattanantitta and Kayakulam in Alapuzha district. In the meanwhile, the court has handed over Abdul Jaleel from Kadachira Kotoor in Kannur district, who is already in judicial custody for similar charges, to police custody. The police have been raiding suspected hideouts of Nassir from Kannur, said to be the mastermind behind these operations.

The services of Mohammed Rafiq, trained to navigate boats and ships at deep sea, who has been arrested,are said to have been used to transport explosives to various places in Kerala, Karnataka and Goa. Rafiq, working as fisherman at Poondura sea shore, had suddenly gone missing a year back. He had deserted his wife Mumtaz and two children. The policemen took him into custody from a house where he lived with another woman.

The policemen have intensified their efforts to arrest a religious scholar name Moulavi. They have learnt, that he used to engineer religious conversions, after which he brain-washed the gullible and used them for terrorist activities. The policemen say, that Moulavi, after getting settled as a religious scholar in Kannur city, used to give instructions and guidance to terrorists.

It is also learnt, that about 15 activists of NDF from Kasargod have gone underground after the murder of P Suhas, advocate. The policemen suspect, that they are hiding in Malappuram and Kasargod districts. It is also guessed, that a few of them might have fled to gulf countries. The investigation into the murder of the advocate, being conducted by a team headed by deputy superintendent of police has not made much headway, presumably because of the expectation that the case would be handed over to the Cental Bureau of Investigation.

The investigating team probing the terrorist activities, has now camped in Nileshwar. It has been decided to collect comprehensive information of all the persons who have gone missing from all the districts of Kerala. This decision was taken at a meeting chaired by additional chief secretary in the Kerala home department, K J Mathew.