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| Will it be Teharik-e-Millat or Awaz-e-Sura? | | Banned SIMI re-emerging under new name | |
NEW DELHI, NOV. 7: Even as the Union Home Ministry has sent out fresh instructions, urging all States and Union Territories to keep under effective control workers and sympathisers of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), official intelligence community has obtained sensational inputs vis-a-vis the behind-the-scene preparation to enable the outlawed organisation to re-emerge under new names.
At a time when the outlawed SIMI has, once again, been officially accused of promoting militancy in several parts of the country, the new SIMI is expected to take shape as Teharik-e-Millat or Awaz-e-Sura. This, according to government sleuths, is being done to make the new SIMI spread its tentacles from Kashmir to Kanyakumari.
The Union Home Ministry has taken exception to what is officially termed as the "lack of effective measures" by competent authoritis in several States to deal with the SIMI operatives. The administrations in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal have had to come across inconvenient queries from the government of India. Most of these queries related to the "unwanted freedom" enjoyed by the activists of the banned SIMI in these States.
Infiltration of hard-core activists of the outlawed organisation--their exact number is not forthcoming--into several parts of Tamil Nadu, including the capital city of Chennai, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat in recent times has attracted the government of India's attention.
And the outcome: Renewed instructions fro the Union Home Ministry calling for the involvement of the local police and intelligence agencies in these States in the task of rendering ineffective the "nefarious" plans of the operatives of the outlawed organisation.
Police authorites in Madhya Pradesh have specifically be directed to be in a state of preparedness. This follows the disturbing develoipment: SIMI's former Madhya Pradesh unit chief, Imran Ansari, had only last week given the police a slip in Indore town while being taken to a court from Khandwa town. Ansari was later found addressing a meeting of SIMI sympathizers at a hotel. The police raided the place and re-arrested him. Some accounts say the policemen who brought him from Khandwa were in the vicinity of the hotel when the meeting was on.
It is offical: Madhya Pradesh has seen a rise in SIMI activities despite a ban on the group. Since it was outlawed in September 2001, SIMI has spread to new districts like Burhanpur, Guna, Neemuch and Shajapur. Before the ban it was restricted to the districts of Indore, Ujjain, Khandwa and Bhopal, with its state headquarters in Ujjain.
It is also offical: It is not SIMI alone but the underworld have also joined hands. SIMI was just another Muslim body until the 1992 demolition of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya and the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat led the hardliners to break away.
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