After his cousin Riyaz Bhatkal, Yasin Bhatkal, 35, is Indian Mujahideen’s (IM) next choice for planning and executing terror attacks in India. Yasin is in charge of recruiting youth in South India. He brainwashes them and prepares them to sacrifice themselves for the cause, said the police.
He has sent promising youth to Pakistan and Dubai to learn advanced lessons in acts of terror.
“Yasin is brilliant. Most terror attacks carried out by IM
in India were assigned to him and he succeeded in executing them to perfection. He is well connected with Arab businessmen to gatherfunds for attacks in India. He always carries a laptop wherever he travels,” a senior police officer said. Yasin was born and brought up in Bhatkal, Uttara Kannada district. Bhatkal’s brothers Riyaz and Iqbal are his cousins. Yasin came in contact with the IM along with the Bhatkal brothers.
Yasin was the main accused in the Pune German Bakery blast. He played a role in Mumbai and Delhi blasts too.He planned and executed the Chinnaswamy Cricket Stadium and Pune German Bakery blasts.
But the man who masterminds terror can give the healing touch too. Yasin Bhatkal is an Ayurveda doctor and he is popularly known as Dr Imran in most places in Bihar where he was hiding for more than six months.
Recently, he married the daughter of another IM member, Mohammed Irshad Khan, 52, a resident of Delhi and native of Samastipur in Bihar.
He was staying in Irshad’s factory in Meer Vihar area in outer Delhi until the arrest of six IM terrorists by Delhi Police. The police believe he would not have escaped to any country after the arrest of his father-in-law and five others.
“Yasin Bhatkal is hiding in India. Riyaz and Iqbal, too,
are in India, according to intelligence reports available with us,” a senior police officer said.The police in Delhi and Pune have been alerted and they are making efforts to nab Yasin. Yasin evaded the city police when he came to plant bombs around Chinnaswamy stadium on the night of April 16, 2010.
A police constable from Cubbon Park police station was patrolling Raj Bhavan Road (Cubbon Road) around midnight and noticed three people near Gate 12, where the first blast took place later.
He stopped them to check a bag in which he found a tiffin box. As the checking was
going on, two of them fled the spot.As the constable’s attention was drawn to the fleeing duo, the third one snatched the bag and ran away to join them.
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