Three terror emails sent to various news channels after the Ahmedabad and Delhi blasts have been traced to a senior software engineer in Pune working for Yahoo! India.
Mumbai cops say he sent the Indian Mujahideen emails
MUMBAI: In a startling revelation, the Mumbai crime branch on Monday claimed that three terror emails sent to various news channels after the Ahmedabad and Delhi blasts have been traced to a senior software engineer in Pune working for Yahoo! India.
Police did not name the company and when contacted by DNA, the spokesperson at Yahoo! India’s headquarters in Bangalore, denied any communication from the Mumbai police as yet. The spokesperson said: “His involvement with the terror mails has not yet been proved. This is a very early stage to comment on the arrest.”
Joint commissioner of police and chief of the Mumbai crime branch Rakesh Maria said investigations have revealed that the 31-year-old software engineer sent the three terror emails from Mumbai on July 26, August 23 and September 13. “Mohammad Mansur Azhgar Peerbhoy works as a principal software engineer in a top MNC and draws a salary of Rs19lakh per annum,” Maria said.
Explaining Peerbhoy’s background, a senior crime branch official said he is a very well educated person. “He had secured 98 per cent marks in his 12th class exam and 93 per cent in his 10th class exam. He had done his computer education from a reputed college in Pune,” the officer said.
According to Maria, Peerbhoy headed the ‘media cell’ of the terror outfit Indian Mujahideen (IM). Three others who worked with him have also been arrested.
The others were identified as — Mubin alias Salman Kadar Shaikh, 24, Asif Bashir Shaikh alias Hasan alias Mehmood, 22, and Mohammad Akbar Ismail Chaudhary alias Sayed alias Yakun, 28.
Maria said Mubin too was a software professional working for a leading information technology company in Pune. “Asif is a mechanical engineer and had played an active role in planting the bombs in Surat. The bombs did not explode and were later deactivated by the Gujarat police. Akbar is a driver and computer hardware professional,” Maria said.
Apart from the Pune ‘media cell’, the crime branch also arrested 11 others from Mangalore. “They are all a part of the IM and were also involved in planting the bombs at Surat,” Maria said. The police recovered five laptops, six CT units, three pen drives, radio frequency finder equipments and WiFi router finding machines from the suspects.
With these arrests, the total number of terror suspects who have been arrested by the crime branch has gone up to 20. These include the five arrested earlier including the alleged co-founder of IM Mohammad Sadik.
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