The mystery relating to West Bengal-based mobile SIM cards used in the recent terror attacks in Mumbai has deepened with the special task force of the Kolkata Police having detained a Class XII student
The teenager procured the SIMs and sold them at a premium
KOLKATA: The mystery relating to West Bengal-based mobile SIM cards used in the recent terror attacks in Mumbai has deepened with the special task force (STF) of the Kolkata Police having detained a Class XII student in this connection.
Meanwhile, a team of Mumbai Police officers has come to Kolkata for further investigation relating to the state’s SIM link with Mumbai terror attacks. The Mumbai police team, along with Kolkata Police’s STF and detective department, is also grilling the two earlier arrested in the case, Tausif Rahman and Mukhtar Ahmad Sheikh, a J&K policeman.
However, after preliminary investigations, the STF is certain that the detained student apparently does not have any direct link with the Mumbai terror. According to STF’s special additional commissioner Rajiv Kumar, the student purchased pre-activated mobile SIM cards, using his and his friends’ identity cards, and sold them to Mukhtar at a premium rate. Kumar also said that the student had altogether sold around 10 mobile SIM cards to Ahmed.
Kumar also said that in all probability, the student’s name would be included just as a witness in the chargesheet. “We are now trying to trace one more person in this connection,” Kumar said.
However, STF sources said the probe is to check whether anyone else has been utlised by Ahmed in purchasing pre-activated mobile SIMs. According to them, they are also trying to find out that whether Ahmed was responsible for supplying mobile SIM cards to those involved with terrorist strikes elsewhere in India.
Meanwhile, Kumar said here on Monday that the STF is trying to access the entire background of Ahmed, especially whether he had any criminal background elsewhere in India.
r_sumanta@dnaindia.net 
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