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| Probers from different cities in J&K to establish SIM links | | MUMBAI ATTACK | | ET DESK
New Delhi/Jammu, Dec 10: Investigating agencies from several Indian cities are in Jammu and Kashmir right now, trying to locate a few shawl sellers who cops believe supplied cellphone SIM cards to Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives in Pakistan. Some of those cards were used by the terrorists during the Mumbai carnage.
All 10 terrorists involved in the Mumbai attack carried cellphones, which they switched on after they entered the city. They were asked to call LeT leaders in Pakistan for orders. Cops here have seized nine mobile phones and are searching for a phone that may still be in the debris at the Taj, the Oberoi or Nariman House, the targets in the attack.
Teams from Kolkata Police and the Intelligence Bureau are in Jammu and Kashmir, say officials, looking for some shawl sellers.
Officials said the cards were first purchased by Jammu and Kashmir police constable Mukhtar Sheikh and Kolkata resident Tausif Rehman from an agent in the West Bengal capital. Sheikh and Rehman were arrested in Delhi and Kolkata, respectively, officials said. These two are believed to have passed on the SIM cards to the shawl sellers who, in turn, passed them on to the LeT operatives.
Joint commissioner (crime) Rakesh Maria said: "We are verifying the facts related to sale of mobile SIM cards. We are all trying to locate the Kashmiri shawl sellers who sent them to Pakistan.''
Intelligence agencies had intercepted conversation between the terrorists and their bosses in Pakistan during the operation to flush them out of the Taj in Mumbai between 26 November and 29 November.
The Mumbai Crime Branch also will take custody of LeT members Faheem Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed, arrested by the Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh Police in connection with an attack on a CRPF camp in Uttar Pradesh. The police found photographs of the places, which were attacked on 26 November, with Ansari. |
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