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Bangalore cops target techies with Simi links

With Mohammed Yahya Kamakutty, a former GE employee, arrested on Thursday night, techies with links to Simi have come under the scanner in Bangalore

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Simi allegedly wants to recruit IT professionals

BANGALORE:With Mohammed Yahya Kamakutty, a former GE employee, arrested on Thursday night, techies with  links to Simi have come under the scanner in Bangalore.
“Muslim techies have formed a group and Simi is trying to recruit them in order to convert them into hardcore terrorists,” a senior police official said.

The police are also looking out for another techie who allegedly is a SIMI activist, and is absconding. “He is a key point in reaching to those who are highest in the chain of command in India,” the official said.

Meanwhile, the 32-year-old Yahya name came up during investigations into the Mumbai train blasts of July 2006.

“He was under watch for two years. When GE came to know about his links with Simi, they sacked him. We have also found the other techies with Simi links,” a police official said. Kamakutty’s arrest, the police say, may have alerted the other techies with Simi links. 

Police have been watching several other techies who are suspected of having links with the organisation from past two years since a Karnataka connection was found in the Mumbai train bombings.

“There are several members affiliated to Karnataka Democratic Front,” he said.  KFD was formed recently to fight for the interests of the minorities, especially Muslims. The group too has been under watch since its formation. According to the police, Kamakutty who attended an  engineering college in Kozhikode came to Bangalore about eight years ago to work in the IT sector.

He worked for a few years at Tata Infotech and later landed a job for himself at GE. The suspected terrorist is married and has three children. However, Khan continued to indoctrinate other techies and turn them into hardcore radicals, the police said. Police have seized a laptop, books on Islam and some ‘jihadi’ literature during the raid on Thursday night.

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