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Cops probe link between bank robbery and cash found at SIMI hideouts in Bijnore, Burdwan
Hyderabad : Police are investigating if money looted from an SBI branch in Karimnagar district on February 1 was meant for terror purposes. Four armed men robbed the SBI branch at Chopaddandi village on February 1 and looted Rs 46 lakhs after locking up the branch manager at 9:30 am.
Three of the four youths who fled on motorcycles are now suspected to be SIMI activists, who escaped from the Khandwa jail in Madhya Pradesh last October. Seven SIMI members including Abu Faisal, a Mumbai-based leader of the banned outfit, escaped from the jail on October 1 last year. The MP Anti-Terrorist Squad arrested four including Faisal and three are still on the run.
These three, and an associate, are believed to have robbed the bank. “Based on evidence we gathered and the CCTV footage we have, we believe they are the same persons who escaped from Khandwa jail,’’ Karimnagar SP Shiva Kumar said on Friday. Abu Faisal is believed to have set up a separate wing in the banned SIMI especially to loot banks, finance institutions, jewelers and gold mortgaging companies to fund their activities.
After the robbery, the three SIMI activists, along with other associates, were living in a rented house in Kazipada of Bijnore, UP. A bomb that they were assembling went off in their room, injuring at least two of them. They took their injured colleague to a doctor who apparently refused first but treated him after they paid Rs one lakh. UP Police later traced the doctor and recovered Rs 96,000 cash from him.
“We have reason to believe that some of the persons who were living in that room in Bijnore where the blast occurred were involved in the SBI robbery. They were spending the cash looted from the bank,’’ SP Shiva Kumar said. Police apparently found several cash tags linking it to SBI’s Chopadandi Branch.
The SP said he was not sure if the bank was looted exclusively for the purpose of financing terror operations. “Initially, we thought it was a gang from Maharashtra which had struck but investigations revealed that it was the handiwork of the SIMI activists who escaped from Khadwa jail,’’ SP Kumar said.
Police are also trying to ascertain if cash recovered from Burdwan, West Bengal also came from this loot, and whether SIMI members were helping that group that had set up base in Burdwan.
Three of the four youths who fled on motorcycles are now suspected to be SIMI activists, who escaped from the Khandwa jail in Madhya Pradesh last October. Seven SIMI members including Abu Faisal, a Mumbai-based leader of the banned outfit, escaped from the jail on October 1 last year. The MP Anti-Terrorist Squad arrested four including Faisal and three are still on the run.
These three, and an associate, are believed to have robbed the bank. “Based on evidence we gathered and the CCTV footage we have, we believe they are the same persons who escaped from Khandwa jail,’’ Karimnagar SP Shiva Kumar said on Friday. Abu Faisal is believed to have set up a separate wing in the banned SIMI especially to loot banks, finance institutions, jewelers and gold mortgaging companies to fund their activities.
After the robbery, the three SIMI activists, along with other associates, were living in a rented house in Kazipada of Bijnore, UP. A bomb that they were assembling went off in their room, injuring at least two of them. They took their injured colleague to a doctor who apparently refused first but treated him after they paid Rs one lakh. UP Police later traced the doctor and recovered Rs 96,000 cash from him.
“We have reason to believe that some of the persons who were living in that room in Bijnore where the blast occurred were involved in the SBI robbery. They were spending the cash looted from the bank,’’ SP Shiva Kumar said. Police apparently found several cash tags linking it to SBI’s Chopadandi Branch.
The SP said he was not sure if the bank was looted exclusively for the purpose of financing terror operations. “Initially, we thought it was a gang from Maharashtra which had struck but investigations revealed that it was the handiwork of the SIMI activists who escaped from Khadwa jail,’’ SP Kumar said.
Police are also trying to ascertain if cash recovered from Burdwan, West Bengal also came from this loot, and whether SIMI members were helping that group that had set up base in Burdwan.
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