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| Geelani may be quizzed in LeT operative case | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Mar 2: The Delhi police is likely to question Hurriiyat Conference chairman, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, about the recommendation he is said to have made for issue of Pakistani visa to the duo. The duo had admitted that one of them Ahtesham Malik had visited Pakistan in 2011 on Pakistani visa having got the same on recommendation of Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani. Meanwhile families of two sopore Lashkar operatives denied their wards' involvement in militancy and said that they were arrested in Bihar where the two were had gone for studies. 21-year old Tauseef Ahmad Peer of Badam Bagh, Sopore, and Ahtesham Ahmad Malik son of Batapora in Sopore, were arrested from New Delhi railway station on Wednesday accusing them of being affiliated with Lashkar-e-Taiba. Police and were "planning and attempting" to fire-bomb Chandni Chowk's cloth market in Delhi and the State Bank of India branch in Srinagar.
According to sources, Ahtesham was motivated by a Lashkar commander in the Valley, Usman, who had asked him to get a passport in last quarter of 2011 and to get in touch with an LeT commander codenamed Javed in Lahore.
Sources said Javed had arranged Ahtesham's training in arms and bomb making in a house although his father had sent him to Hazaribagh for studies as his mother was from that place. He is reported to have been arrested once in 2007 for his alleged links with local militants. Claiming that both were innocent, their families accused Delhi police of making baseless and fabricated claim to frame them Tauseef's mother, Mehbooba, said her innocent son had left for Jharkhand for studies. "While studying in 12th class, Tauseef also worked as a salesman with a shop in Sopore bus stand. On January 28, 2012 the special operations group of the state police had arrested him and set him free the next day. But, on January 30, he was again taken into custody, subjected to torture and released later in a half-dead condition," she said, adding that on enquiry police had told them that they were questioning Tauseef about some mobile SIM card matter.
Mehbooba said that the family members, including Tauseef, were gripped by fear following SOG harassment after which it was decided to send him for studies to Jharkhand where her brother lived along with his family for several years past. On February 13, Mehbooba said, Tauseef left for Jharkhand and began his studies at his maternal uncle's home. Though the school management had promised him admission, he had joined a computer training centre at Hazaribagh.
On Wednesday, she said, Tauseef was on way to the computer centre along with his cousin when the Jharkhand police arrested them both and took them to the police station. However, after some time, his cousin was set free. The news about Tauseef's arrest came to the family as a bolt from the blue, Mehbooba said, adding that the other youth, Ahtesham, was his sister's son, who is already studying in Jharkhand having already completed his graduation. She said Ahtesham was on way to Patna for examination when he was arrested.
Meanwhile, Jharkhand police has raided Ahtesham's house at Hazaribagh and arrested one more youth identified as Taufeeq Ahmad Peer, who too is related to him. His domicile could not be ascertained immediately. He was arrested from Ahtesham's house at Peera village falling under the jurisdiction of Pallawal police station in Hazaribagh area.
According to police, Ahtesham's father, Farooq Ahmad, is a government employee and is married to a woman in Jharkhand though he has not been there for the past two years. |
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