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SIMI faction is running all-India terror network

Credible evidence linking the May 13 Jaipur blasts and last year’s bomb attacks in Hyderabad has emerged.

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The same kind of bombs were used in Jaipur and Hyderabad

NEW DELHI: Credible evidence linking the May 13 Jaipur blasts and last year’s bomb attacks in Hyderabad has emerged, confirming fears that a powerful network of home-grown terrorists are operating across India.

Based on clear evidence and other inputs, the investigators are carrying out an intensive search of Jaipur for local SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India) sympathisers, who may have escaped surveillance by intelligence agencies and played a crucial role in carrying out the serial blasts two weeks ago.

According to dependable sources, the detonators used in the Jaipur and Hyderabad blasts were manufactured by the Andhra Pradesh Explosives Ltd based in Hyderabad. The investigators also found that the unexploded bombs recovered in both Jaipur and Hyderabad were similar. From Jhori Bazar of Jaipur police had recovered an unexploded bomb on May 13, while in Hyderabad an unexploded bomb was recovered from Dilsukhnagar on August 25 last year when two bombs killed  34 people.

The bombs had a similar chemical composition—based on ammonium nitrate, the same brand of Samay digital clocks, and detonators from the same batch manufactured in the same factory.

Every terror group, whether in Iraq, Kashmir or Afghanistan has a clear signature way of carrying out attacks. A striking signature has been emerging in the bomb blasts across India in the past three-four years. Besides, a very strong Hyderabad link has emerged, sources say. India’s most infamous homegrown terrorist, Shahid Bilal, who was killed in Pakistan last year, was originally from Hyderabad.

From the available evidence and analysis, the central agencies are now convinced that a local group, in all possibility former members of SIMI, are behind the blasts across India over the last three-four years. The Jaipur blasts were their latest success, and there is no clear indication where they could strike next.

Several  recent blasts — Mumbai train blasts, Varanasi, Samjhauta Express, Delhi, Malegaon, Hyderabad, Jaipur — are all yet not solved satisfactorily, and police claims on culprits are “unreliable”, dependable sources in the security establishment are now beginning to admit.

Based on other important inputs received after the Jaipur blast,s the security establishment is now also convinced that sympathisers of SIMI who believe in violent reprisals against India, are active in the Pink City.  

Sources said there have been local intelligence inputs in the past about some SIMI presence there “but we have noticed no significant activity” in Jaipur before blasts.
But that could be because of lax intelligence gathering and lack of network among the local Muslim community, officials admit.

Providing ideological and monetary motivation, and in some cases even ground-level leadership, to this SIMI faction are groups such as Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami (HuJI) and Lashkar-e-Taiba. But what is frightening is that the suspected SIMI faction has a wide network across India, and they can strike almost at will anywhere they want. Poor investigations and lack of ground level intelligence are only facilitating this capability.

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