CHARGE SHEET (Under Section 173 Cr. P.C) IN THE COURT OF THE LEARNED SPECIAL JUDGE, NIA, PATIALA HOUSE, NEW DELHI Name of the Investigation _National Investigation Agency Agency, (NIA) FIR No and date RC - 06/2012/NIDLI Dated 10.09.2012 Final ReportiCharge Sheet 2(A)/ 2013, No, Date 20" February, 2014. Sections of Law. Sections 120B read with 121, 421A and 122 of Indian Penal Code, and Sections 17, 18, 18- A, 18-B, 19, 20, 21, 38 (2), 39 (2) and 40(2) of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967 as amended in act 35 of 2008 ‘Type of Final ReportiCharge Charge sheet. Sheet If Final Report Un-occurred/ Not Applicable. false! Mistake of fact/Mistake of lawiNon- Cognizable /Civil Nature If Charge-sheeted: ‘Supplementary. Original / Supplementary. Page bor?8. Name of Investigation Vikas Vaibhay, IPS, Officer. ‘Superintendent of Police, NIA Name of the Complainant — Swayam Prakash Pani, IPS, Superintendent of Police, NIA 10. Details of Properties As per Annexure B & C /Articles) Documents enclosed, recovered/seized during the investigation and relied upon: 111.1) Particulars of accuse \s charge sheet Name : Md, Ahmed Siddibapa @ Yasin Bhatkal @ Imran @ Asif @ Shahrukh @ Mustafa @ Dr. Arzoo @ Prince @ Vinod Desai @ Samir Suri @ JJ @ TB (herein after referred as A-6) Father's Name : Md, Siddibapa Zarrar Year/Date of Birth 2 15.01.1983 Sex 2 Male Nationality : Indian Religion 2 Muslim ‘Occupation : Member/Cadre of Indian Mujahideen (IM) Address (Present) : Last resident at hideout in Pokhara, Nepal Address( Permanent) : House No.938,S.M.Zarrar Manzil, Jaali Road, Magdoom Colony, Tage or 277Bhatkal, Uttar Kannada District Karnataka, India. Whether verified Yes Date of Arrest : 29.08.2013 Under Acts & Sections (of : Sections 120B read with 121, charge sheet) 121A and 122 of the IPC, and Sections 18, 18-A, 18-B, 20, 21 & 40(2) of UA (P) Act 1967, as amended in Act 35 of 2008. ‘Status of the accused : Inthe judicial custody of the Learned NIA Special Court, New Delhi (11.2) Particulars of accused persons charge sheeter Name : Asadullah Akhtar @ Haddi @ Daniyal @ Tabrez @ Asad @ Dan @ Sameer @ Haider @ Mamoon @ Yunus (herein after referred as A-7) Whether verified : Yes Father's Name : Dr. Javed Akhtar Date of Birth 29.03.1985 Sex 5 Male Nationality Indian Religion : Muslim Occupation : Member/Cadre of Indian Mujahideen (IM) Page 0°77Address (Present) Address( Permanent) Date of Arrest Under Acts & Sections (of : Last resident at hideout in Pokhara, Nepal Mohalla Bazbahadur, behind Tediya Masjid, Azamgarh, UP. 29.08.2013 Sections 120B read with 121, charge sheet) 421A and 122 of the IPC, and Sections 18, 18-A, 18-B, 20 & 40(2) of UA (P) Act 1967, as amended in Act 35 of 2008. Status of the accused In the judicial custody of the Learned NIA Special Court, New Delhi (11.3) Particulars of accused persons charge sheeted: Name Manzer Imam @ Jamee! @ Abu Haneefa (herein after referred as A-8) Whether verified Yes Father's Name Year/Date of Birth Sex Nationality Religion Occupation Address (Present) Md. Ali imam. 08.11.1973 Male Indian Muslim Member / Cadre of Indian Mujahideen (IM) Bariatu Basti Near Jama Masjid(Now Madeena Masjid) Tage 8277Ranchi, Jharkhand. Address( Permanent) : Bariatu Basti Near Jama Masjid(Now Madeena Masjid) Ranchi, Jharkhand, Date of Arrest 2 01.10.2013 Under Acts & Sections (of : Sections 18, 38 (2) and 39 (2) of charge sheet) UA (P) Act, 1967 as amended in Act 35 of 2008. Status of the accused : Inthe judicial custody of the Learned NIA Special Court, New Delhi ns char Name © Ujjair Anmed @ Ozair Ahmed (herein after referred as A-9) Whether verified : Yes Father's Name : Late. Shamas ul Haque Year/Date of Birth 01.01.1969 Sex 2 Male Nationality 2 Indian Religion Muslim ‘Occupation + Member / Cadre of Indian Mujahideen (IM). Address (Present) : Road No. 2, FirdousNagar, Manitola, © Doranda, Ranchi, Jharkhand. Address( Permanent) Lai, PS Binta, Dist- Patna, Bihar. age 50°77Date of Arrest : 30.10.2013 Under Acts & Sections (of : Sections 17, 18, 19, 38 (2), 39 (2) charge sheet) and 40 (2) of UA (P) Act 1967 as amended in Act 35 of 2008. Status of the accused 2 In the judicial custody of the 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Learned NIA Special Court, New Delhi Particulars of accused persons - not charge-sheeted. Nil (i) Particulars of witnesses tobe —_: As per the list examined enclosed in Annexure (A) (ii) Listidetails of documents/Articles : As per the list enclosed in Annexure (B) - Documents ‘Annexure (C) - Materials ‘Annexure (D) ~ References of text of Chat communication If FIR is false, indicate action taken or proposed to be taken u/s 182/211 IPC : Not applicable Result of laboratory analysis As per the list enclosed in Annexure (0) Brief facts of the cas 16.1 In pursuance of the directive of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of india, vide Order No. F. 0, ERE. the: National Investigation Agency, New Delhi, India (NIA) registered a case as Regular Case No. 6/2012/NIA/New Delhi dated 10.09.2012 under Sections 121A & Page 6 ora?16.2 123 of the IPC and Sections 17, 18, 184, 18B & 20 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 as amended by Act 35 of 2008, against the accused persons namely, 1. Yasin Bhatkal @ Ahmed Zarrar @ Imran @ Asif @ Shahrukh, son of Md. Siddibapa Zarrar, resident of district Bhatkal, Kamataka 2. Riyaz Bhatkal @ Ahmed, son of Ismail Shahbandari, resident of district Bhatkal, Kamataka, 3. Iqbal Bhatkal @ Mchammad, son of Ismail Shahbandari, resident of district Bhatkal, Karnataka, 4. Mohsin Choudhary, son of Ibrahim Ismail Choudhary, resident of district Pune, Maharashtra, 5. Amir Reza Khan @ Parvez @ Rizwan @ Muttaki, son of Ishaque Ali Khan, resident of district- Gaya, Bihar, 6. Tahsin Akhtar @ Monu son of Wasim Akhtar resident of district- Samastipur, Bihar, 7. Dr. Shahnawaz Alam, son of Shadab Ahmed, resident of district- Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, 8. Asadullah Akhtar @ Hadci, son of Dr. Javed Akhtar, resident of district- Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, 9. Ariz Khan @ Junaid, son of Zafre Alam, resident of district- ‘Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, 10. Md. Sajid @ Bada Sajid, son of Late Quraishan, resident of district- Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, 11. Md. Khalid, son of Late Sager Ahmed, resident of district- ‘Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, 12. Mirza Shadab Beg, son of Mirza Ahttesham Beg, resident of district Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, who are absconding and other persons for entering into a criminal conspiracy to wage war against the Government of India, being members of the banned terrorist organisation Indian Mujahideen (IM). It was alleged that in furtherance of their conspiracy, some functionaries of the Indian Mujahideen (IM) are undertaking large Tage 707716.3 16.4 16.5 scale recruitment! induction of new members, for commission of terrorist act, in various parts of the country with the active aid and support from their Pakistan based associates and with their sleeper cells within the country to commit terrorist act by causing Bomb Blasts at important and prominent places in India especially in Delhi Source information revealed that Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives and its frontal organizations are receiving regular funding from abroad to finance their terror activities. During the investigation, the role of another five IM operatives, namely Md. Danish Ansari @ Abdul Waheb @ Saleem @ Abdullah (A-1), Mohd Aftab Alam @ Farooq @ Shaikhchilli @ Hafij Ji (A-2), Imran Khan @ Zakaria @ Saleem @ Fazal @ Tabrez @ Raj @ Patel (A-3), Syed Maqbool @ Zuber (A-4) and Obaid Ur Rehman (A-5) was revealed. They were involved in the larger conspiracy of the IM to wage war against the Government of India. They were subsequently arrested in connection with the instant case for their substantial role in the conspiracy and commission of offence. A Charge-Sheet was submitted on completion of the investigation against them on 17” July, 2013. At present they are under ju ial custody of the Hon'ble Court. During further investigation, two accused persons named in the FIR : (1) Md. Ahmed Siddibapa @ Yasin Bhatkal @ Imran @ Asif @ Shahrukh @ Mustafa @ Dr. Arzoo @ Prince @ Vinod Desai @ Samir Suri @ JJ @ TB and (2) Asadullah Akhtar @ Haddi @ Daniyal @ Tabrez @ Asad @ Dan @ Sameer @ Page 80°27Haider @ Mamoon @ Yunus, were arrested from Raxaul on the 29" August, 2013. 16.6 Subsequently involvement of two more persons (1) Manzer Imam @ Jameel @ Abu Haneefa and (2) Ujjair Ahmed @ Ozair Ahmed surfaced, and they were arrested by the NIA on 110.2013 and 30.10.2013 respectively. The investigation against all the four accused persons mentioned in para 16.5 and 16.6 have been completed 17. _ Facts Disclosed During Investigation 17.4. The ‘Indian Mujahideen’ (IM) is a. proscribed terrorist organisation in India, as well in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, In the United States of America, the ‘Indian Mujahideen’ is a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under section 1 (b) of Executive Order 13224. The Indian Mujahideen operatives have entered into a larger conspiracy of waging war against the Government of India. The war waged against India is to be effected by the commission of terrorist acts like bomb blasts at prominent places and important tourist sites of Indi kidnapping of selective targets including foreigners visiting India and others; with a larger view to disrupt the financial economy of India and to create a sense of terror and insecurity in the citizens of India. The larger aim of the proscribed organization is to radicalize certain susceptible youth on religious lines with the avowed aim of creating a pan-Islamic caliphate and to further induce them to participate in terrorist acts, Which are prejudicial to the maintenance of communal harmony, and against the values enshrined in the Constitution of India. The organization is receiving financial and material assistance from the Tage 90277Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), backed by the Government of Pakistan which has sheltered and is providing shelter to several 5 of the proscribed outfit in Karachi and in absconding senior operé other places in Pakistan. Involvement of the Indian Mujahideen _in_terrorist The investigation conducted so far by the NIA has established the role of several operatives of the Indian Mujahideen (IM) in. planning and actual commission of several terrorist incidents in different parts of India. On completion of the investigation against five arrested accused persons and IM operatives namely (A-1) Md Danish Ansari, Aftab Alam (A-2), Imran Khan (A-3), Syed Magbool (A-4) and Obaid ur Rehman (A-5), first charge sheet was filed on 17 July, 2013, against the above mentioned five arrested operatives of the “Indian Mujahideen” and with the permission of the Ld. Special court, NIA at Patiala house complex, Delhi, further investigation of the case was continued under the provision of Section 173 (8) of Cr.P.C. 17.3. Role of Md. Ahmed Siddibapa Zarrar (A-6), as pointed gut in the Original Charge Sheet dated 17" July, 2013 Investigation by the NIA, as mentioned and extensively discussed in the Charge-Sheet submitted on 17" July, 2013, brought out the role and involvement of the accused person Md. Ahmed Siddibapa (A-6), as @ principal conspirator and operative of the IM. The evidence related to the involvement of A-6 in the larger conspiracy hatched by the IM operatives, as mentioned in the earlier Charge-sheet included the following :~ ‘a. That in pursuance of the said conspiracy, the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa Zarrar (A-6) had made extensive efforts Fagen 07277for the recruitment of new cadres for the IM in Bhatkal (during stay at his hometown) and later in Darbhanga, That in pursuance of the said conspiracy, around 2008, the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa Zarrar (A-6) adopted different alias names viz. ‘Shahrukh’, ‘Asif and ‘Yasin’ etc. to conceal his actual identity and worked / conspired / colluded with other IM operatives, many of whom were originally residents of Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh. . That the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa Zarrar (A-6) was earlier associated with the activities and operatives of the SIMI, also @ banned outfit under the Schedule of the UA (P) Act, and nurtured communal views. That the investigation in the German Bakery, Pune Blast Case of February 2010 by the ATS, Maharashtra has established that Yasin Bhatkal @ Md. Ahmed Siddibapa Zarrar had played an active role in causing the bomb blast, which resulted in the loss of several lives and the destruction of property. That during investigation by the City Crime Branch, Bengaluru, involvement of Yasin Bhatkal @ Md. Ahmed Siddibapa, clearly emerged in the Chinnaswami Stadium, Bengaluru Blasts Case of 17.4.2010. That during investigation by the Special Cell, Delhi Police, involvement of Yasin Bhatkal @ Md. Ahmed Siddibapa along with Riyaz Bhatkal and Iqbal Bhatkal clearly emerged in the Delhi Serial Blasts of 13.9.2008. Page nt r277|That during investigation by the Crime Branch, Ahmedabad Police, into the Serial Blasts at Ahmedabad and Surat in 2008, the involvement of Md. Ahmed Siddibapa @ Yasin Bhatkal along with Riyaz Bhatkal and Iqbal Bhatkal had clearly emerged. That thus it was established that the IM operatives including but not limited to Yasin Bhatkal along with Riyaz Bhatkal and Iqbal Bhatkal, being the members of Indian Mujahideen, had conspired to cause bomb blasts and thereby indulged in waging war against the Goverment of India. That investigation further established that the accused Md, Ahmed Siddibapa Zarrar @ Yasin Bhatkal estal hideout in Shaheen Bagh, New Delhi after the Batla House encounter on 19.9.2008, ied a safe That the accused Md, Ahmed Siddibapa Zarrar @ Yasin Bhatkal regularly met the other co-conspirators including Md. Iqbal @ Iqbal Bhatkal and others, at the hideout in Shaheen Bagh and made efforts to develop a new module of the IM. . That the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa Zarrar visited Darbhanga and established new hideouts including the ones at ()) Jamatchak Jocality in Darbhanga, (ji) Sara Mohanpur, Darbhanga, (ii) Dharampura locality in Samastipur, (iv) Bhawwara Chowk, locality in Madhubani and others. Regular meetings were organised at these jeouts to formulate the plan and to do preparatory works in furtherance of the conspiracy i.e. to cause terrorist attacks. Page zor 277|The meetings were attended by IM operatives which led to the development of a new module of the IM. Further, the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa Zarrar (A-6) also Visited Kolkata in 2009 along with one Qatee! Sidiqqui (deceased) and stayed at the residence of one Humayun for the furtherance of the activities of the IM. During his stay at Kolkata, he tried to build his network there and was arrested on suspicion in a case of theft by the Kolkata Police. During arrest he revealed his assumed identity as Md. Arshad slo. Md. Ashraf, which was found to be non-existent, thus proving entities. to that the accused has been assuming new conceal his actual identity, That the Charge-Sheeted accused Md. Danish Ansari (A-1) was recruited into the IM by the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa (A-6) with the assistance of the accused Md. Tahseen Akhtar @ Monu. That the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa (A-6) had established an arms factory at Mir Vihar in Delhi, and utilised the services of the charge-sheeted accused Md. Danish Ansari (A-1) for the upkeep and maintenance of the said factory. That the accused persons Danish Ansari (A-1), Waqas, Danial (A-7), Sheikh @ Faroog (A-2), Imran @ Yasin Bhatkal (A), Tahseen @ Monu, being the members of Indian Mujahideen, committed the offence of organising a terrorist camp for imparting training to their cadre 7 members in Darbhanga, Bihar. Pages 727717.4. Role of the accused Asadullah Akhtar (A-7) pointed out iginal Chi 47% July, 2043 _- Investigation by the NIA as mentioned and extensively discussed in the first Charge- Sheet submitted on 17" July, 2013, brought out the role and involvement of the accused person Asadullah Akhtar (A-7), as a principal conspirator and operative of the IM. The eivdence related to the involvement in the larger conspiracy hatched by the IM operatives, of the accused A-7, as mentioned in the earlier Charge-sheet included the following :- a. That during the investigation, the role of the accused Asadullah Akhtar @ Haddi was established as one of the principal conspirator / executor in various heinous terrorist attacks in different parts of India including but not limited to the Jaipur Serial blasts on 13.5.2008, Ahmedabad Serial Blasts on 26.07.2008, Delhi Serial Blasts on13.09.2008, erial Blasts 0n13.07.2011, etc Murnt b. That the accused Daniyal @ Asaduliah Akhtar @ Haddi (A- 7), and Waqas @ Mota Bhai stayed at the Sara Mohanpur hideout in Darbhanga along with the accused persons Md. ‘Ahmed Siddibapa (A-6) and Aftab Alam (A-2), in pursuance of the said conspiracy. c. That the accused Asadullah Akhtar actively participate: Dars, organized at Mohalla Shivdhara, Darbhanga in the month of January, 2011, with the aim of induction of potential recruits for the outfit. d. That the accused Asadullah Akhtar @ Haddi @ Danial along with the other accused persons Md. Danish Ansari (A- Pages o1277|1), Wagas, Sheikh @ Faroog (A-2), Imran @ Yasin Bhatkal (A-6), Tahseen @ Monu, being the members of Indian Mujahideen, committed the offence of organising a terrorist ‘camp for imparting training to their operatives in Darbhanga, Bihar, 17.5. Arrest of the accused persons Md. Ahmed Siddibapa Zarrar_and Asadullah Akhtar :- During further investigation by the NIA, source information was received regarding a planned meeting of the acoused persons 1. Md. Ahmed Siddibapa @ Yasin Bhatkal (A-6) and 2. Asadullah Akhtar @ Haddi (A-7), with other unknown persons / IM operatives, in the morning hours of 29" August, 2013, near Nahar Chowk in Raxaul, Dist - East Champaran (Motinari), Bihar. Accordingly, surveillance was laid / launched and with the active assistance of Bihar Police, accused persons Md. Ahmed Siddibapa @ Yasin Bhatkal (A-6) and Asadullah Akhtar @ Haddi (A-7) were arrested near Nahar Chowk in Raxaul, close to the Indo — Nepal border, on the ‘Strength of the Non Bailable Warrants, issued on 18" July, 2013, against the accused persons, by the Ld. NIA Special Court, New Delhi. During initial examination, the accused persons stated that they had been hiding / living in Pokhara, Nepal, in the recent past due to the fear of being arrested by the NIA / other state police agencies, in connection with the different cases lodged against them in India. 17.6. Items recovered during the Personal Search of the accused persons All the legal formalities were followed during and after the Arrest and Personal Search. A memorandum of arrest and personal search was prepared. The items recovered from the Personal ‘Search of the accused persons included the following - Pages O27a. Items recovered upon Personal Search from the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa 5. tm Reeavered No 7 | Toshiba apiop Bag 2 | Samsung N 100 Laptop Serial numb: a a Weenie Uaptoee csr 7 4 Pocket ry Folder containing a, Election ID Cards Two Numbers in the names of Sameer Suri No, KINI and Vinod Desai No. Nil », Other incriminating documents including but not limited to Visiing Cards, Ingian Driving License in the Name Of Samer Suri No. KM, Photostat o Nepali Citizenship Cerd in the name of Sheikh Habibullah, Handwritten papers containing phone ‘numbers and document containing expenses. (item No. 2,3 and 4 found within Item No. 1) VHS written Birthday, Family Fim with name Nokia 1280 without Battery with IMEI No. 355177055174996 Two AGTEL Phones with dual SIM faciliy with IMEI Nos. ‘containing. SIM_No. ‘and. IMEI Nos. with SIM No, | Nokia E 50/1Phone wih IMEI No. 9 | DVD 10 nos marked as 1 to 10, b. Items recovered upon Personal Search from the accused Asadullah Akhtar @ Haddi S.No. | item Recovered 2 | Kingston 4 GE Pen Drive Page 6072773] Video Game Port GADMET-TV-3820E 17.7. Examination of the accused persons :- The accused persons were then produced before the Ld. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Motihari, who was pleased to grant three days transit remand. The accused persons were then further produced before the Ld. NIA Spl. Court at Delhi, on the 30" August, 2013, and then taken in police custody for examination.The accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa @ Yasin Bhatkal was examined in police (NIA) custody til the 21° of September, 2013, while the accused Asadullah Akhtar @ Haddi was examined in police (NIA) custody till the 17" of September, 2103. 17.8. Formation _and Nomenclature of _the _ terrorist organisation _as_the Indian Mujahideen -- Investigation has established that the organization now known as the “Indian Mujahideen (IM)", had initially started in the form of a small group called as “Usaba” in Bhatkal. Usaba (congregation) is an Arabic word, which as per the accused means a group of men, which is more than 11 and less than 40. It was revealed during the examination of the accused Md. Ahmed (A-6) that “the main object of Usabe is to collect the persons having same mentality and dedication to do something’, which in this case was to wage jihad or holy war against the Hindus, other communities and the Indian state. During his examination the accused A-6 further mentioned that ‘Jihad is an obligation from God to his servants to establish Islamic society’, which thereby is opposed to the vision of society as enshrined under the Constitution of India. Investigation has revealed that the group named as Usaba included the accused person 1. Md. Ahmed Siddibapa @ Yasin Bhatkal (A-6) along with 2. Iqbal Bhatkal, 3. Riyaz Bhatkal, 4. Jasim, 5. Shabbir, 6. Sajid, 7. Afeef, 8. Gora Ismail @ White Uncle, 9, Sultan, 10. Page 171277Tariq Anjum, 11. Fasih Mahmood and others. The Usaba meetings started taking place on regular basis (generally on every Friday) in the house of Iqbal Bhatkal, in which issues like weapon training, finance, {alent spotting, spiritual discourse and other matters pertaining to procurement and logistics were discussed. As the group expanded its operations, it also included the operatives from Azamgath, Pune and other places in India. A suitable name had still not been fully decided for the outfit, when the email was sent claiming the Uttar Pradesh Courts Blasts (2007). The term ‘Indian Mujehidin’ mentioned in the email sent, was picked up instantly by the media, and the nomenclature of ‘Indian Mujahideen’ was given to the outfit. The new nomenclature of the ‘Indian Mujahideen’ was liked by the operatives, and was thus used in the subsequent emails along with a designed logo. 17.9. The early stages of the formation of the IM were also revealed during examination of the accused Asadullah Akhtar, who stated that he had joined the IM in order to protect the rights of Muslims. He contacted one Atif Ameen, who was his school friend. Asadullah mentioned that the precursor to the IM had been started around the years 1999 to 2000, by one Aftab Ansari at various places, along with one Asif Reza Khan, who later died in an encounter in 2002, in Gujarat. Asif Reza Khan had motivated three persons namely Sadeeq Sheikh, Amir Reza Khan (his younger brother) and Riyaz Bhatkal. Subsequently they motivated Atif Ameen. While Sadeeq Sheikh is presently in jail, the other two are allegedly / reportedly based in Karachi, Pakistan, Asadullah revealed that Atif ‘Ameen further motivated him along witht. Mirza Shadaab Beg, 2. Ariz Khan, 3. Sarvar Ajmi, 4. Hakeem, 5. Shahbaz, 6. Pappu, 7. Saifur Rehman, 8. Shakib, 9. Ziya, 10. Saif, 11. Abu Rashid, 12. Pages 1277Md. Rashid, 13. Arif Badr, 14. Arif, 15. Salman, 16. Shadab Ahmed, 17. Bada Sajid and 18. Chota Sajid, all members of the Azamgarh Module, while Riyaz Bhatkal motivated the Bhatkal and Pune Modules. Members of the Bhatkal Module included 1. Afeef, 2. Salim, 3. Sultan, 4. Farhan, 5. Shareef, 6. Khan (Abdul Wahid Siddibapa), 7. Yasin Bhatkal (A-6) and others. Members of the Pune Module are 1. Peerbhoy, 2. Mohsin Choudhary, 3. Akbar Choudhary, 4. Hasan and others. The accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa @ Yasin Bhatkal (A-6) further motivated the Darbhanga Module which included 1. Anwar, 2. Shaikhchilli (A-2), 3. Sayeed, 4 Abdullah (A-1), 5. Hasan, 6. Gauhar, 7. Qateel Siddiqui, 8. Adil and others. During his examination the accused Asadullah stated that their operatives including Sadiq Sheikh and Amir Reza Khan, had earlier participated in the attack on the American Centre in Kolkata in 2002. 17.10. Disclosure by the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa (A- regarding the contents stored in his Laptop, recovered durin personal search, at the time of arrest :- That on being asked about the items recovered during the personal search at the time of arrest, ‘on the 4" of September, 2013, in continuation of his earlier statements, accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa stated that he used to motivate young Muslim boys by narrating them stories of Muslim fighters who had done Jihad against non-Muslims in the past. He used to quote selected phrases from Islamic religious books in support of Jihad. He had downloaded from internet a number of documents which portrayed Jihad as an obligatory act (Far2) of every Muslim. He had also downloaded lectures (taqreers) of Muslim leaders and fighters like Osama Bin Laden, Al Yazeed, Al Zarkawi, C Khateeb, Awlagi from internet. He made young Muslim boys watch these videos and read over these documents to them, so as to motivate Paget 7277them for sacrificing their lives in the name of Jihad. All these videos, documents, files had been saved by him in his Samsung laptop. 17.11. After monitoring them for Jihad A-6 also taught these boys, (including but not limited to Tahseen Akhtar, Wagas, Asadullah Akhtar, Danish Ansari, Farooq @ Sheikh Chilly, Dilkash and others) how to prepare explosives and IEDs. For this purpose, he had downloaded a number of documents / images / videos from the internet and saved them in his Samsung Laptop. He used to make them understand about circuits, mixing of chemicals for making explosives and other related things through these downloaded files. Riyaz Bhatkal had sent (A-6) copies of some forged Electoral I/Cards for the purpose of assuming new identities at the time of procuring SIM Cards etc. These scanned copies were also saved in his Samsung Laptop. Apart from these files some other letters, wr gs, were saved in his Laptop. He stated that he could show all these files and folders if given access to his Samsung Laptop which was seized by NIA from his possession at the time of his arrest. 17.12. Exhibits seized during the personal_search of the arrested accused persons forwarded to CERT-In, a Govt. of India ing Mirror Im: ind analysis re - Based ‘on the above disclosures, in order to effect recovery u/s. 27 of the Evidence Act, on the 4" September, 2013, the laptop, phones, pen drives etc. seized during the personal search of the accused persons on the 29" August, 2013, during their arrest were forwarded to the CERT-In for obtaining their mirror images and for further forensic analysis. 17.13. Disclosure about different email /chat_accounts used on the intemet along the secret code and nature of the Page 2001277contents by the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa (A-6) :- That on 31% August, 2013, the accused person Md. Ahmed Siddibapa (A-6) disclosed that his e-mail chat identities vero rs HE, the passwords of the first two being HI, a7 the passwords of the other two which he could not remember; and which could be opened and contents thereof provided, if he was provided a computer, with an internet connection. Further on 2" September, 2013, the accused Mohd. Ahmad Siddibapa (A-6) revealed about having used one more email ID/Chat ID RE ith password as MN He further admitted that this email ID was used to chat only with the absconding accused person Md. Riyaz @ Riyaz Bhatkal, currently residing in Pakistan, whose email was III. He used to chat with Md. Riyaz @ Riyaz Bhatkal in secret coded language using abbreviations, which both of them could understand easily. Some of the codes that they used during the chat for communication were disclosed as follows:- EN@ - _Inshallah Daee - _ Danyal (Assadullah Akhtar) Dub - Dubai Beboo/Bebo - Iqbal Bhatkal AIUAFLARtab = Mohsin Chaudhary Engnr - — Shadab Agency ca Isl Mota - — Afeof Sult - Sultan (Abu Rashid of Azamgarh) Asm = Asim (Mohd Khalid of Azamgarh) Shekhu = Sultan of Bhatkal Page 2277Shekhu Chhota Bhai Shafi Sheh/Shehzad = Salimishagi Taagut = Agency Waley (IS!) Prne - Prince (Md. Ahmed i.e. A-6) Smmr = Sameer (Assadullah i.e A-7) frhn Farhan (of Bhatkal) Khan = Abdul Wahid of Dubai Khaldy - Passport Huzi > Tahseen @ Monu Pandit = Shiekh Abdullah @ BalBahadur Aft or Aftab - Mohsin Chaudhary Musa - Qayamudin Qapadia Jeet = Abdul Karim. Far Farhan jadu - — Ishagi Waagu - AlQaida Yao - Yehudi - Jews Neye - NIA Gaww = Mumbai Dehat = Bhatkal Metro - Pune BB - either Black Beauty, friend of Tahseen or Iqbal Shaam = may refer to Delhi Chhal = Anwar @ Gayur Jamaali gljejuu - Gujarat Mmrruine - sub marine. Jad - Javed @ Waggas.” 17.14. Disclosure about different email [chat_accounts used on the internet along with the secret codes and nature of the Page 2277contents by the accused Asadullah Akhtar (A-7) :- That on the 31 of August, 2013, the accused person Asadullah Akhtar (A-7) disclosed that his e-mail chat identities were his passwords and which could be opened and contents thereof provided, if he could be provided a computer with an internet connection. Subsequently, computer with Internet connection was provided to the accused Asadullah Akhtar (A-7). On 2"! September, 2013, the accused further disclosed that he used to chat on his chat ID account REE, ith the absconding accused person Mirza Shadab Beg at the emai address WR. The accused on 2” September further disclosed that they always used to discuss about various operations, tasks assigned by the Indian Mujahideen commanders, arrangement of logistics, movement of IM cadres, funding for activities, internal meetings and politics of IM, the support given by the ISI and the Al-Qaeda ete. During the conversation they used to chat in coded form and also used to send files, Photos, book for password, identity documents for taking out money etc. through encryption using Axcrypt software. ‘They used to install this application in their computer and then encrypt the documents to be sent. The password for decryption was MEI between 4-7 and Shadab. The Password for decryption between A-7 and Riyaz was I. 17.15. Disclosure about the Codes used During Chat of A-7 with the absconding accused persons Riyaz Bhatkal and Mirza Shadaab Beg - The accused Asadullah Akhtar @ Haddi (A-7) disclosed that he had used the method of chatting on Yahoo messenger through internet to chat with his commanders Riyaz Bhatkal and with Mirza Shadab Beg. He had created different Page 23 1277accounts to chat with each one of them. Mirza Shadab Beg was from ‘Azamgath in UP and was his childhood friend while Riyaz Bhatkal was from Bhatkal in Karnataka. They were both based in Karachi, in Pakistan, They were in touch with the ISI of Pakistan, and with Al- ‘Qaeda members for obtaining monetary and material support, in order to fund the IM's logistics, and for arranging materials for terrorist attacks at different places in India. The accused A-7 used coded language to chat with both of them. The frequent codes used by him in the chat with Mirza Shadab Beg were disclosed as under :- “Pappu stood for the father of Mirza Shadab Beg “Chikn” stood for Bada Sajid (IM operative now in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa area for linkages and engaged in Jihad with elements of Al-Qaeda. ) “Mulla/Pandit’ stood for Sultan of Bhatkal residing in Pakistan. “Tb” stood for the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa (A-6) "Mota Bhai” stood for Afeef of Bhatkal based in Karachi, Pakistan “Ind” stood for India “tickkttt” stood for pistol "Bada" stood for Iqbal Bhatkal, "Chta” stood for Riyaz Bhatkal and “rzz’ stood for Rizwan @ Amir Reza Khan, all three IM operatives based in Pakistan “Tech” stood for Taliban and “Micro” stood for Al- Qaeda "Voda" was for the ISI “Operwalon” stood for people from Afghanistan (of Al Qaeda | Taliban) Page 2s 277“Anda’ stood for Zeeshan (jailed IM operative) “Saq’ stood for Saquib (jailed IM operative) and “shak’ stood for IM operative Shakeel “Danda’ stood for Abu Rashid of Azamgarh, IM operative based in Pakistan “deposit” stood for fidayeens (suicide attackers) “champ2" stood for the childhood name of A-7 which was popular among school time friends “@aqa’ also stood for Al-Qaeda “Chaloo ticket” stood for Pistol and “reservation” stood for AK47 rifle “Chmnnn’ stood for explosive material 17.16. Disclosure about the Nature of Contents of the chat communication with Mirza Shadaab Bea by Asadullah Akhtar ‘The accused further disclosed that he used to discuss several issues with Mirza Shadaab Beg during chat, including for example: a. On or around the 15" of July, 2013, they had discussed about the fight between operatives of Indian Mujahideen in Karachi in which some operatives were injured. They also discussed about the role of the ISI in this matter. b. On or around 22” or 23 August, 2013, Mirza Shadab Beg told him that everyone wanted them to do some action. The accused told him that he was waiting for some boys to reach Nepal. ©. On 25" August, 2013, they discussed about two boys Shadab Ansari of Sanjarpur, Azamgarh, UP (he had planted bombs at Page 2s 01277Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Delhi in 2008) and one friend of Dr. ‘Shahnawaz who were to be sent to Pakistan). On the same day they discussed about getting fidayeens through Al-Qaeda for operations in India. They also discussed about the Batla house encounter on this day in which some of their operatives had escaped narrowly. d. On the 26" of August, 2013, Indian boys were sent to get weapons from ISI operatives somewhere in India and they had discussed that they could not get the weapons. e. On the 27" of August, 2013, they had talked about the setting of Dr. ‘Shahnawaz in Gujarat Jail. One IM detenue Saif in Gujarat jail had sent a letter for Dr. Shanawaz, one letter for Riyaz Bhatkal and one for Bada Sajid. The accused had told Shadab that if he had some connections in the jail, he needed to send a letter to the father-in- law of the accused Md, Ahmed Siddibapa (A-6), in Delhi Jail. Again on the same day they had discussed about sending 2-3 boys to Nepal for training 17.17. Disclosure about the Codes used During Chat of Asadullah Akhtar_with Md. Riyaz @ Riyaz Bhatkal :- The accused A-7 disclosed that during his chat with Md. Riyaz @ Riyaz Bhatkal, the accused used codes, which were sometimes same as in the chat with Mirza Shadab Beg, and were at times different from them. Some of them were disclosed as under :- a. “JJ” stood for Yasin Bhatkal (A-6), who was staying with him at Nepal b. ‘Cappt” stood for the capital (Kathmandu or Delhi as per the conversation) Page 267277©. “pandittji” stood for one Bal Bahadur Thapa, who was associated with them at Nepal d. “jada stood for the Pakistani IM operative Wagas in India e. “hss” stood for Hassan @ Monu @Tehsin of Bihar, who is stil absconding in India f. “hazii” stood for Hassan @ Monu @ Tahseen, as mentioned by Riyaz Bhatkal 9. “kalung stood for explosives h. “nnn” stood for nitrate (explosive) i, “elaichii’ stood for detonator i. “pt” stood for Paltalk k. *n® stood for Nimbuzz chat |. “waagu” stood for Al-Qaeda in Waziristan m."asim" stood for IM operative Jabrood of Bhatkal in presently in Pakistan 1. “alii” stood for IM operative Mohsin Chaudhary of Pune presently in Pakistan ©. “bigaduu” stood for IM operative Shahzad of Bhatkal presently Pakistan 17.18. Disclosure about the Nature of Contents of the chat communication with Riyaz Bhatkal by Asadullah Akhtar (A-7) :- The accused A-7 further disclosed about some of the issues which were discussed from time to time on the chat with the accused Md. Riyaz @ Riyaz Bhatkal, including the following :- a)In the month of July 2013, they had discussed about sending money through a person based in Dubai, b)about arrangement of explosives in the end of the month Ramzaan. Page arora?c)about sending one explosives expert from Afghanistan to Nepal. d)They had also talked about using proxy servers to chat with each other, so that their location was not disclosed. e)Riyaz had also told A-7 about his plans to shift to Afghanistan and about his fight with other IM operatives, on some issues at Karachi ) When Riyaz went to Afghanistan, about 2 months back, he was given some tasks including one to attack Jews in India. They also discussed this on chat, in August, 2013. 17.19. Recovery of the Contents / texts of the chat based on the disclosures ws. 27 Evidence Act, from the Chat Accounts used by the accused persons Md. Ahmed Siddibapa @ Yasin Bhatkal (A-6) and Asadullah Akhtar @ Haddi (A-7) :- On 31* of August, 2013, consequent upon the disclosure of accused Mohd Ahmed Siddibapa (A-6), it was attempted to recover the texts / contents of communication of the Yahoo mail ID (RR, it could not be done since due to being accessed from a country other than the country of usual access, the security feature of the site demanded answers to the security questions, which were not remembered by the accused, and the account had thus got locked for twelve hours. The accused person was initially given more time to remember the answer to the security question, but it could not be recalled by the accused. Then, on the 2 ‘Sep, 2013, the CERT-In was approached for sparing the services of an expert to undertake the process of recovery of the e-mails disclosed by the accused, as well as to oblain certain details from CERT-US, and CERT-UK, following up on the information obtained Page 2s 01277from Yahoo! Inc. In the discussions, the peculiar problem, which arose when attempting the recovery based on the disclosure on 31°, Aug, 2013 was discussed. It was suggested that since the accused did not remember the answers to the security queries, the accounts would have to be logged in from a Nepal IP. To effect the same, it was suggested that a Nepal based computer be obtained, and taken over using ‘Team Viewer’ software, and the account accessed and recovery made in India. 17.20. Recovery of the Contents based on the disclosures uls. 27 Evidence Act, of the Yahoo email/ Chat Accounts used by the accused persons Md. Ahmed Siddibapa @ Yasin Bhatkal (A-6) and Asadullah Akhtar @ Haddi (A-7) :- On the 3 September,2013, experts of CERT set up their system and helped accused A-6 recover the texts / contents of chats as per provisions of 27 of Evidence Act. As per recovery memo, the chats/ e-mail contents (including files! attachments) of the following IDs were recovered: 1. BRS sThis contained chats with {HR - which is of Riyaz Bhatkal 2, MRS This contained chats with ‘ER - which is of Riyaz Bhatkal 3. MR © This contained chats with RR - ch is of Afcet 4, MS = This contained chats with EEE - hich is of Sultan, Similarly, the chats/ e-mail contents (including files/ attachments) which belonged to the accounts used by the accused Asadullah Page 29277Haddi (A-7), were recovered. It included the following IDs:- 1, EEE This contains chats with a which is of Riyaz Bhatkal 2, ES — This contains chats with ‘(ERR |. which is of Mirza Shadab Beg The process was undertaken using the expert assistance of Scientist of CERT-In, in the presence of two independent witnesses, who installed the software, checked the hardware for consistency, and finally advised on the data integrity check process, using MDS software. At the end of the process, the hash value was generated, and 47 files, in eight folders, amounting to 30.8 MB in all, were generated, and stored in the computer and subsequently transferred, and saved, in the hard disk. All the working screens were recorded as a video capture. The recovered files were then copied into a Compact Disc, and the passwords were changed to avoid alterations. 17.21. Recovery of Data from Paltalk accounts of the accused Asadullah Akhtar @ Haddi (A-7) :- On the 2” September, 2013, the accused Asadullah further disclosed that he remembered a Paltalk ID, Which was used to contact Riyaz Bhatkal, 2° Sy (with password [MM Accordingly, a disclosure memo under section 27 of Indian Evidence Act was prepared, and the recovery process was effected in the presence of witness. The Paltalk account was opened, and the contents of account of Riyaz Bhatkal - {EEE which he was in contact with, was recovered through this process. No other details were obtained. A request was sent for obtaining the information contained in the Paltalk accounts in respect Page 30277of the Id’s (i) IEE and (ii) III for the period from date of creation till date 17.22. On 13" Spetember, 2013, an email containing the subscriber info, IP address etc of two Paltalk IDs ic IRI and was sent by the Paltalk service provider. 17.23. Details emerged from the Chat account data recovered uls. 27 Evidence Act based upon the disclosures of the accused persons :- From the chat accounts recovered, it emerged that the ‘accused persons were creating chat accounts on fake names using proxy servers to conceal their identities and locations. The accused persons used coded language in the chat, and to have utmost secrecy, separate secret chat addresses were created to chat with different operatives. The new chat addresses were exchanged with each other either through encrypted files or by statements in secret coded language, understandable only mutually by the operatives. The following periods of activity on the email / chat accounts was revealed during the investigation st © Identity | Pariod OF | Used to Chatwin | ony of No tine. | Operation ihe ‘oar | Rosipion 7 zor w 20" igus 2313 | 2 | 86 ia uy | el Riyaz Zora was Agi 2013 a ne ne Ket @ 2ora a 1" No pT Paar Novenber dora wo 13" Soy, 2013 5 eS! 65, | ata dona to 28 ct gust 2313 ee zona wat agus 2313, 7, | Page stot 277|aa Shade agus. 2313 | 7 i VT tos crmarte 2) es ao. 8 Shadaad gust 2043 Es Tahseon | May 2013 ot | — W. a8 Wages | ay 2013 ti nr 17.24. Emergency Dislosure_Reauests_sent_to Service Providers for extracting contents of Email Chat ; Login Data obtained :- On the 1* of September, 2013, an emergency disclosure request as well as preservation request, was sent to M/s. Yahoo! Inc, in respect of the following eight yahoo IDs as disclosed by the aoomedipemons centien viz: EEE ee ee HEE. Subsequently, the registration details in respect of 7 email IDs/chat IDs out of eight, as well as the login IPs of these accounts were obtained from M/s. Yahoo! Inc, and the account details were preserved. As regards email ID/Chat ID ERE, it was mentioned that no data/details were contained in the said ID. Yahoo! US was further requested through Emergency Disclosure Request for seeking the details in respect of following Yahoo mail/Chat IDs disclosed by the accused persons in Police (NIA) Custody: 1. [i es 4 e012: received from Yahoo! Inc. which stated that the mail/Chad ID menothing1 was wrongly spelt while another |D was a Yahoo UK ID for which a separate request needed to be sent to Page sor 277|Yahoo UK. An Emergency Disclosure Request was then sent to Yahoo UK for obtaining the details of NNN. Yahoo! Inc. provided the IP address and Log in time of 1 | (RE. Yahoo! UK responded by furnishing the IP logs and subscriber details of JIE. It was seen that the IP logs corresponded to the IP logs of NE Later, an Emergency Disclosure Request along with data preservation letter was sent to Yahoo! Inc. for the details like subscriber name, used name, residential address etc of the following email/Chat IDs | MES 20s V2hoo (0 - A wren these Id's emerged during the analysis of the chits of paper seized during the personal search of the accused persons. 17.25. MLAT Request sent to USA :- During investigation, an MLAT request was sent to the USA, for obtaining all details regarding the usage of the following Email / chat ID's Yahoo IDs Page 3307277PALTALK IDs 17.26. Receipt of Certified Chat Details from M/s. Yahoo! Inc and M/s. Paltalk in response to EDR / MLAT request sent: The email/chaVIM dumps for the account addressed were received in response to the Emergency Disclosure Requests made to Mis. Yahoo! Inc, in CD / DVD, in respect of the following accounts : Il HIB Later, corttfcates were received along with the data duly certified in response to the formal MLAT request. The IP logins of the two accounts sought for .c. KN and IINININIE. were received from Mis. Paltalk in response to the formal MLAT Request. 17.27. Efforts made to_locat actual_servers used to access the emails / chat accounts by absconding IM operatives in contact with the arrested accused persons:- During the investigation, several service providers were contacted either directly Page 38277or through the MLAT process, for obtaining records identifying the actual users of the IP's as received from the email/ chat service providers as per the time and date stamps, along with the details of all payments (including methods of payment for use of these services). A petition was filed before the Ld. NIA Spl. Court, requesting for a warrant, to cause search and production of the aforesaid items from their respective custodians. On the 7" September, 2013 the Ld. NIA Spl. Court in exercise of its powers under $.105, Code of Criminal Procedure (Annexure 8), issued four separate search warrants for production of the items by: 1. Yahoo! Inc, 2. Paltalk Inc, 3. Sophi Inc, and 4. Hurricane Electric, to the concemed entities, addressed to the Hon'ble Competent Authority in the USA, to be routed through the Central Authority of the Republic of India, and the Central Authority of the USA. Letter of Requests were sent to several service providers of Nepal, Canada and Ireland seeking the information of IP addresses used by the accused persons to chat with their associates. Several replies were received in the course of the investigation. On analysis of the IP Logs provided by the service providers, juxtaposed with information in respect of the location of the accused established from the investigation, it was established that the IPs were not the ones actually used, but were proxies used from different locations. During the investigation, it has been established that the absconding accused persons including Md. Riyaz @ Riyaz Bhatkal and Mirza Shadab Beg utilized proxy servers for establishing contacts with the arrested operatives and adopted methods for the concealment of their activities and locations. 17.28. Nimbuzz Chat ID referred by the accused Riyaz Bhatkal traced to Pakistan ~- During the investigation, details were Page 3s 7277received in respect of the several Nimbuzz accounts including RS 2c ER, (00m Mis. Nimbuzz, in which it was seen that proxies had been used for registration and access. The login details from Nimbuzz, in respect of [NNN and RR, Were received from the providers. From the received details, the creation IP of the account [NNN was found to be WBE, which belongs to Pakistan Telecommunication ‘Company Limited. 17.29. Examination of other items obtained during personal search of the accused persons - On 11" September, 2013, a memorandum was prepared for breaking of sealed envelop containing ‘small papers/ chits of various visiting cards, voter ID card, Driving licences, hand written chits etc. which were seized from the laptop bag of accused persons during the personal search on 29.08.2013 during the arrest and photo-copy of the same was taken in the presence of independent witnesses for investigation purposes. Another envelope was then resealed with the original documents and duly despatched to CFSL, CBI, Delhi, on the 16” of September, 2013, with specimen handwritings of the both the accused persons A-6 and A-7. The accused person Md. Ahmed Siddibapa (A-6) was examined to obtain details about the visiting cards, electoral ID cards, driving licences and various phone numbers, names, amount details etc. written on the various chits of papers which were recovered from his possession during the personal search on 29.09.13 after his arrest. The items recovered during the personal search, included the following. :- 1. Several visiting cards of Nepalese firms, indicating their various types of activities of the accused persons in Nepal, in order to ‘obtain cover for evading arrest. Page 36 072772.Visiting card of chemical shop, visited for procurement of Sulphuric Acid used for titration of nitrocellulose which was used to prepare propeliants for bullets at Mir Vihar Arms Factory. 3.Phone Numbers including the numbers of the contacts of the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa's in Nepal and India (family members and associates) and the list of Dubai contacts, sent on chat by the absconding accused Afeef @ Mota including the numbers of the absconding accused persons Noor @ Anwar and Abdul Wahid @ Khan. 4, Email ID's of other IM operatives including the email Id of Wagas (GB. of Tohseen Akhtar @ Hassan (QR. hich was given to the accused A-6 by Riyaz, to be used for contact with them and Nimbuzz ID of Riyaz Bhatkal menothing1 5.Details about skype 10 NE. rediff iD EES 2 200 (0: eee! | = 6.Fake Identity Documents including fake Election ID card from Kolkata, in the name of Sameer Suri, fake Electoral Identity Card made in the name of Vinod Desai, used to receive money through Western Union money transfer and a. citizenship certificate of Nepal, in the name of “Sheikh”. 17.30. Initial_Radicalisation_of the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa @ Yasin Bhatkal (A-6) :- Investigation has established that Poge 7277the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa (A-6) was born in Bhatkal (Distt. Uttar Kannada, Karnataka). His father Mohd. Zarar Siddibapa, then based in Dubai, was in the wholesale garment and shoes bu: ess. He had studied upto VII" standard at Naunihal Central School (English Medium). Later, he joined Islamia Anglo Urdu High School, where he could not complete his standard X. Right from the initial days the accused had a deep religious bent of mind and was more fascinated towards the study of religious and other related literatures. While he was studying at Islamia Anglo Urdu High School, he developed friendship with Jasim Iqbal Sayyeedi and Salim Ishaqi, both older to him. They used to discuss religious issues together. When he left his school, he started reading books of various writers like Sahi Muslim, translated by Waheed un Zaba and Rar Rhi Qu! Nakhtoom written by Safi-ur-Rehman, which deeply influenced his thoughts later. 17.31. Visit_to_ Mumbai he accused A-6 in 2001 :- Investigation has established that in and around June 2001, with the consent of his family members the accused A-6 left for Mumbai to explore the possibility of doing business. His family had an ancestral property known as ‘Siddibapa Kholi’ located at ‘Bhendi Bazaar’ in Mumbai. He started garment business by buying “Jung? from wholesale market and selling them. Initially it was on loss, however slowly his business picked up. During his stay in Mumbai he learnt about ban on SIMI 17.32. Business of Perfume Shop and contact with students of Anjuman Engineering College by the accused in Bhatkal - Investigation has established that in and around December 2001, the accused A-6 started business involving dates. Then, in or around December, 2001, he opened a Perfumery and Naturopathy Medicines Page 38 07277(Unani) shop known as Almohtasham near Noor Masjid in Bhatkal. Maulana Shish was his business partner. Their perfume shop was very popular amongst the students of the Anjuman Engineering College. The shop used to be frequented by students like Fasih Mahmood (Resident of Darbhanga, Bihar), Tarique Anjum (Resident of Nalanda, Bihar), [INN (Resident of Darbhanga, Bihar) and WR, cousin of Riyaz (Resident of Bhatkal). The visitors included a blend of locals and boys from Darbhanga who would discuss jihed along with local and national /global issues together, fostering a very close relationship, which in the future would be the basis of Darbhanga module of IM. Moulana Shish and Jasim were the main speakers who gave lectures of different kinds realting to Islamic faith, communal violence etc, Their relations with Darbhanga boys were further cemented after they provided shelter in around September 2002 to Fasih Mahmmod and [EEE who were being looked after by the police as they had thrashed a local boy of Shetty ‘community. Fasih became indebted to them and insisted them to visit native place during Eid. 17.33. Visit_by the accused to Darbhanga in 2002 ~ Investigation has revealed that in or around November 2002, on Fasin Mehmood's request the accused A-6 along with Jasim went to Darbhanga. Initially they stayed at the house of Fasih in the Darbhanga town, followed by his house in the village. During their stay in Bihar, the accused A-6 also developed an acquaintance with Gowhar Aziz Khomeni, who was related to Fasih Mehmood. During this stay the accused also visit to Nepal via Raxaul (where he was later arrested). 17.34. Motivation of the accused person A-6:- Investigation has Page 39 07277established that the accused A-6 was highly religiously motivated and inspired with hatred against other communities. He wanted to fight against other communities for the triumph of his religion i.e. Islam. Even afler the arrest of his father-in-law Md, Irshad Khen, the accused though perturbed had mentioned the reasons for his motivation, in the letter (named as “dil see” in the folder “EXTRACTED DATA\Q10- THUMB DRIVEIZIP") seized from his laptop, where the accused has stated “yahi meri zindagi ka maqsad aur dil ki arzoo hai ki kufr ko humara rab humary hathon se zaleel 0 ruswa aur khatam kary’, and further that’mai itna janta hu ke mujhy azadiu ke sath bagi rakhny me Allah TALA ka koi khaas maqsad aur mujh se bahut kaam lena ‘aur app sab ko kuch din aram se apny ilm aur sehat me phuktagi lany me mublat deni hai mujhy yaqeen hai aap sab ne in dono chizon me ‘eur har khair me pukhtagi aai hogi aur aap sab islam ki taraf se kufr par hony waly hamly ki jung ka intazar kar rahy hongy, anqareeb wo waqt zaroor ayga jab yeh arzoo puri hogi INSHA ALLAH.’, clearly establish the nefarious designs of the accused A-6 to wage war against other communities in the garb of religious war. 17.35. Further Radicalisation of the accused person by Md. Igbal_@ Iqbal Bhatkal _and_M: Riyaz Bhatkal -- Investigation has revealed that in or around April 2003, the accused visited Mumbai along with Sajid Salafi. Earlier Sajid had spoken very high about Riyaz Bhatkal brothers and that they shared a common mindset. So he was very keen to meet them. He could only mest Iqbal during his first visit, who was working there as an Unani practitioner. Later he could meet Riyaz. Later, Iqbal and Riyaz met him in Bhatkal where he learnt from Iqbal that they were being chased by the Police for their involvement is some blast case. They discussed some business plans like setting up an International Telephone Booth Page ao or277(locally known as Khacha business), but the accused found the idea as un-islamic, since their religion did not permit to purchase things on the basis of loan, and thus declined to join. Once Iqbal had purchased ‘a new motorcycle financed by a local bank. This act also had initially annoyed the accused as he had then considered it to be un-islamic to take loan. Iqbal however justified his action quoting some religious scriptures and the concept of Maale-ghanimat. Gradually the accused A-6 started coming closer to Iqbal and Riyaz Bhatkal. They would together discuss issues involving condition of Mustims in Bosnia, Kosovo and Chechnya. Accordingly the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa (A-6) was motivated to join armed struggle named as Jihad against Hindus and other communities, who were perceived to be acting against the interests of Islam. In statement recorded uls. 164 CrPC, the accused has mentioned that as per his understanding, “Jihad is an obligation from God to his servants to establish Islamic society by saying that if anyone kills you, to kill those person’. He has further mentioned that “We fight against believers of God popularly known as “Kafirs’ because they want to implement man made laws against the Muslims.” Investigation has thus clearly established that the accused person had no faith in the Constitution of India, since he considered the same to be man made ilarly, you have also right and which could not override the divine law. He nurtured feeling of hatred against other communities and was not in the favour of religious freedom as enshrined in the Constitution of India, 17.36. Visit of Master Bashir @ Talah to Bhatkal and the formation of the Usaba - Investigation has established that in or around Feb/March 2004, Master Bashir @ Talah (from Nadua in Uttar Pradesh) visited Bhatkal at the behest of one Shabbir Gangoli @ Moulvi Sabir who had returned to Bhatkal after completion of his Page at 277Islamic study in Nadua, Lucknow. Master Bashir motiviated him to join jihad, He motivated the accused and his associates to get united and fight against kaafirs (all non-muslims including Hindus, Christians, Jews, Buddhists and so forth) who perpetrated perceived atrocities against Muslims. They were further motivated to “come under one umbrella’. During that period, the accused A-6 along with his associates formed a small group called Usaba, and elected Iqbal Bhatkal as its Amir, Gora Ismael @ White Uncle and Afeef were also nominated as the office bearers of this group. The tasks assigned to different members were:- a. Iqbal Bhatkal- Amir of Usaba and arrangement of funds b. Jasim-organising training courses including in driving, horse riding, swimming etc. c. Yasin Bhatkal- procurement of weapons 4, Sultan- collecting news clips about the current status and issues of Muslims from different newspapers and media sources e. Shabbir- Islamic studies {.Afeef & Riyaz Bhatkal- Media management. 17.37. Establishment of Workshop to fabricate weapons by the accused Md. Ahm a = Investigation has established thal in or around Jan / Feb 2004, Riyaz Bhatkal provided Rs. 40,000/- to the accused for establishing a workshop to fabricate improvised weapons including knifes and swords to be used in the times of communal clashes by the muslim community. Jasim's father also funded him for the establishment of the said workshop. With the Page azor277|money received from Riyaz and Jasim’s father, the accused opened a lathe cum welding workshop and named as Al-Hadith. Accordingly the accused prepared some knives and swords, which were provided to the community. This further establishes thet the accused A-6 wanted to create mutual disharmony between his community and other communities and made efforts to intensify the distrust. 17.38. Visit_to Sharjah (U.AE) by the accused A-6- Investigation has established that the absconding accused persons Riyaz Bhatkal and Iqbal Bhatkal along with Master Bashir motivated the accused A-6 to go to Pakistan for weapons training. In or around 2004, on Riyaz's direction, he renewed his passport from the RPO Bangalore as his previous passport (1995) had expired. In or around end of 2004, the accused went to Dubai on a temporary visa and worked there for six months. During his stay in Sharjah, he was in regular touch with Riyaz Bhatkal through chatting on Yahoo messenger. Riyez had asked him to try and meet some Al-Qaeda member in Sharjah, 17.39. Visit to Pakistan and training of the accused A-6 along with one Harun Rashid Naik, with support of the ISI :- Investigation has established that in or around December 2005, with the support and guidance of the absconding accused Amir Reza Khan, who is based in Pakistan, Riyaz instructed the accused A-6 to go to Pakistan via Dubai for training on ad and in the use of weapons and explosives. Riyaz had convinced the accused A-6, that the main problem of contemporary Muslims was powerlessness. Since acquisition of power needed training, he was convinced to visit Pakistan for the same. The accused A-6's code name in Pakistan was Mustafa. He travelled from Dubai to Karachi (in the guise of travel till Page a3 7277Mumbai) on a PIA flight. He exited Dubai for Mumbai on the strength of his genuine Indian Passport by PIA flight which was Dubai to Mumbai via Karachi. At Karachi airport A-6 was taken off the plane by ‘one person (an ISI agent ) carrying a placerd in the name of Mustafa, The travel arrangements of the accused person from Dubai to Karachi in Pakistan were made by the ISI of Pakistan. The accused A-6 was initially accommodated in a big bungalow in Karachi, where he was shifted the next day to a tent like shelter in the mountains. There were several Pakistani instructors who were carrying weapons like LMG and AK 47. The training included morning PT, Weapon handling and explosive / IED fabrication training. During the training the accused A- 6 was exposed to a variety of weapons like AK 47, LMG and others. During the training, the accused A-6 was also exposed to handling of explosive like C4, C3, TNT (Tri Nitro Toluene) etc. Besides this, he was also exposed to fabrication of IEDs with the help of Ammonium Nitrate, Potassium Nitrate and others. The entire training lasted for about 50 days. During his stay in Pakistan the accused A-6 also met the abscon 9 accused person Amir Reza Khan. Amir Reza Khan had also given his e-mail ID to contact and chat with him but Riyaz had instructed the accused not to interact with him. After the training the accused A-6 returned back to Dubai where he started running a personality training educational institute. One Ahmed Bawa had discussions with the accused person about the plight of the muslim ‘community in India and globally. One Khalil Ibrahim had introduced the accused A-6 to Ahmed Bawa. Ahmed Bawa @ Abu Bhai also got inspired for waging jihad and joined the accused. 17.40. Return _to_India_ans ming “Yasin Bhatkal” :- Investigation has established that in or around mid of 2006, the accused A-6 came back to India via Calicut (Kozhikkode) and stayed Page a 277in Udupi. Here, in order to avoid original identity, the accused A-6 along with Ahmed Bawa @ Abu Bhai and some other changed their names and adopted new names. The accused adopted the name of *Yasin’. Later the eccused shifted to Koppa, near Udupi and took three acres of land on lease for five years and started farming there. The accused purchased cows, goats, and dogs planted more than 1200 banana plants. He employed one Akbar and Mariyam as caretakers. Kutherigundi is a village near the farm at Koppa. At Koppa other persons who lived at the farm included Ahmed Bawa. Riyaz then sent Sayeed and Anig for training to A-6, The accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa (A-6) provided training to the two persons over a period of 14 to 15 days. They were given target practise with Air-Gun, 17.41. Investigation about ownership of Koppa Farm House :~ During investigation, a request _ was made to the Tahasildar Koppa, Chikkemagalur District, for issuance of the certified copy of the Land records and ownership wherein Fakir Ahmed Slo Mohammed Ismail had his farm house, which was used by IM absconders Riyaz Bhatkal, Iqbal Bhatkal, Yasin Bhatkal (A-6) and others for consipracy and {raining in preparation of IEDs and other criminal activities. Accordingly the NIA received the original certified copy of Record of Rights and Tenency and crops (RTC) and “Mutation and Alienation” details pertaining to the 3 Acres of land in Sy No. 32 situated at Talamakki Village, Koppa Taluka, Chikkamagalur District. As per the records, this land is in the name of Fakir Ahmed S/o Mohammed Ismail since 2001. This land was purchased during the year 1998 by Mohammed Ismail from [EY for 2 Sum of Rs. 1, 75, 000=00 and later during 1998-99 the land was transferred to the name of Fakir Ahmed. 17.42. Initial Radicalisation of the accused Asadullah Akhtar Page a5 01277@ Haddi (A-7) :- investigation has established that the accused A-7's original name is Asadullah Akhtar and that he had used several alias names like Haddi, Asad, Tabrez, Danial, Haider, Raeesh, Sameer, Yunush ete. The accused was influenced by one Atif Amin to join in the Jihad Activities. It was during the school days that he became friends with all those who later became the IM members of the Azamgarh module. They included Ariz Khan@ Junaid, Hakeem, Mirza Shadab Beg, Zeeshaan and Saifur Rahmaan. During his student days, he came in contact with Atif Amin (since dead), resident of Azamgarh, who was associated with SIMI and had a radical bent of mind, He motivated A-7 to join them for Jihadi activities citing atrocities on Muslims like Babri Masjid demolition etc. He also came in contact with Sadiq Sheikh, who was senior to him in college and Mirza Shadab Beg who further motivated him for the cause of Jihad. The accused claimed in his statement recorded uls. 164 Cr PC as having joined the organization around the year 2000, in order to protect the rights of Muslims, as he considered them to be powerless. He further stated that his motto is “Shariyat ya Shahadat’ and the aim is to die for the cause. (Shariyat implies imposition of Islamic rule, while Shahadat implies a fight unto death for the imposition) 17.43. Participation _of the accused in the planning and execution of the Blasts at Varanasi (March 2006) :- Investigation has established that the accused in 2006, along with Atif Amin, Mirza ‘Shadab Baig, Ariz Khan, Sarvar and Saif (presently in Gujarat jail) participated in the Bomb Blasts at Varanasi (at Sankatmochan Mandir, Railway Station and Ghat) to cause damage to innocent lives and property. The accused A-7 along with the absconding accused Ariz Khan @ Junaid planted the IED’s at the three places. The IED's had been assembled in pressure-cooker by the jailed IM operative Md. Page as 1277Sadiq Israr Sheikh, 17.44. Role of the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa in the conspiracy leading to the Hyderabad Twin Blasts, 2007 :- Investigation established that the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa (A~ 6) in association with Riyaz Bhatkal was a part of the conspiracy and planning which led to the Hyderabad twin Blasts in the month of Aug 2007, Riyaz told A-6 to prepare three IEDs to carry out blasts in Hyderabad city. The accused A-6 prepared three boat shaped IEDs (Claymore - unidirectional bomb). The timers were fitted by Riyaz at a later stage. Each IED weighed about half kilogram. Gelatine explosive was used in these IEDs which was arranged by Riyaz and delivered to him at the Koppa farm house. The accused used ball bearings in the IEDs. The accused put all the three IEDs in one carry bag and handed it over to Riyaz at the Koppa farm house. 17.45. Participation of the accussed A-6 in the Conspiracy for terrorist action in Gujarat :- In or around end of 2007, a meeting was organised in Pune where the accused met a group of dedicated boys namely Asif @ Hassan, Faizal Rehman, Mansoor Peerboy, Mohsin Choudhary @ Ashfaq, Akbar Choudhary, Anik and Majid @ Nazim. They had taken accommodation at Ashoka Muse Flat in Kondwa area of Pune. This was planned by Riyaz. Riyaz and Iqbal had participated in the meeting. The main focus in the meeting was to plan for major terrorist action in Gujarat. The accused was highly impressed with Asif @ Hassan who was very committed to the cause of Islam. The accused found them as being more determined and having a better understanding of Islam than the ‘Bhatkal group’. Different tasks like collection of mobile SIM cards (Anik), preparation of timer (Asif), sending of ‘claim email’ (Mansoor Peerboy, Asif), Pega 277bus/train ticketing (Mohsin Choudhary), preparation of the logo of IM (Majid@ Nazim), were allotted to different persons. The accused A-6 was given the responsibility for the preparation of IED's. 17.46. Participation of the accussed A-6 in the Conspiracy for Bomb Blasts at Jaipur in Rajasthan state - Investigation has established that in the month of Feb-2008, Riyaz called the accused 6 and asked to prepare 10 IEDs for testing their capacity. These IEDs were used in Jaipur blasts, 17.47. Participation of the accussed_A-6 in the Conspiracy and Planning for Bomb Blasts at Ahmedabad in Guiarat Investigation has established that the accused A-6 further prepared the boat shaped wooden structure for the IED's to be used in the bomb blasts at Ahmedabad. To make it more lethal, the accused bought Aluminium sheets and nails from a hardware shop in Udupi. It was further revealed that on the 1 July 2008, Riyaz asked the accused to come to Pune with 100 pieces of wooden structure, The accused put all the structures into a bag and came via Udupi to Pune through bus in the morning, where the absconding accused Mohsin ‘Choudhary and Akbar Choudhary (both brothers) came to receive him in an Indica (White) car. Upon reaching there he found Iqbal Bhatkal, Riyaz Bhatkal, Majid @ Nazim, Anik, Asif etc. Later, it was learnt by the accused A-6 that these rooms were being used for drafting the claim emails. The task of claiming of responsibilty was entrusted to Peerbhoy, Munnabhai and Mobin Qadir Sheikh (since arrested). As decided earlier Anik bought about 40 SIM cards and Nokia mobile sets. All the SIM cards and sets were used before 29" July 2008 only for the period of 15 to 20 days and were destroyed after the blasts. Ahmed Bawa @ Abu bhai came with two boxes full of Gelatins Page as 7277weighing about 50 kgs from Mangalore. These gelatin boxes were procured by Riyaz Bhatkal. One Qayamuddin Kapadia received the ‘accused persons at Ahmedabad and arranged accommodation. There the accused met other IM operatives Atif Ameen @ Arman, Chota Sajid, Bada Sajid and Saif. With the assistance of the other IM operatives, the accused prepared more than 20 pieces of boat shaped wooden structure for blasts. The accused during this period also met Fazlu Rehman. The IEDs were distributed for planting in ‘Surat and Ahmadabad. On 22” July 2008 the accused A-6 reached Surat again. 17.48. Participation of the accussed A-6 in the Conspiracy and Planning for Bomb Blasts at Surat in Gujarat :- Investigation has revealed that in the intervening night of 24/25” July, 2008, the accused along with Talah, Fazlu Rahman and Anik reached at Varachha Market, Surat. The accused then personally planted bombs himself along with other associates at the Varachha market. There they saw posters of a Baba who was organizing a public meeting within a day or two. They also carried some of these banners and posters of the Baba’s meeting to disguise themselves. They reached the market at around 11.30 pm in the night and placed around 10 IEDs on the road side hoardings and trees facing the market. They fixed timer for 48 hours and left. On 25" July 2008, they prepared another set of IEDs and fixed the timer for 24 hours and placed all the 30 IEDs at the different places of the market. And then they moved to Pune. The accused along with other operatives Anik, Faizal, Tallah did the job together. On 26" July 2008, Riyaz and Fazlu Rahman placed a large quantity of IEDs in two separate cars near a hospital in Surat. The planning was that the causalities in the serial blasts of Varachha Market would be shifted to that hospital within an hour or two, and in Page 88 01277the meantime the car bombs would also explode causing maximum damage. In Ahmedabad, under the supervision of Atif Amin, Saif, Chota Sajid, Bada Sajid (Azamgarh group) 32 IEDs were planted at different places in the city. However, none of the IEDs of Surat exploded and the accused got depressed and quietly went to bed. Next day in the morning, Riyaz and Fazlu also reached Pune. On 28" July 2008, the accused A-6 returned to Koppa farm house where Abu Bhai, Akbar Ali and Mariyam were present. 17.49. Participation of the accussed_A-6 in the Conspiracy and Planning for Bomb Blasts at Delhi on the 13" September, 2008 - Investigation has established that in the month of August 2008, Riyaz asked the accused A-6 to provide ten more IEDs as materials were already available in the Koppa farmhouse. The accused prepared 10 IEDs and delivered them to Saif and Mohd Khalid in Udupi. The accsued met Saif for the first time and handed over the consignment near the Udupi railway station. After 10 days of this delivery ie. on 13" Sept. 2008, serial bomb blasts took place in New Delhi. These serial bomb blasts were done by Azamgarh group under the supervision of Riyaz Bhatkal 17.50. Participation _in_the conspiracy of other Terrorist incidents conducted by the IM Azamgarh Module, by the accused Asadullah Akhtar @ Haddi (A-7):- Investigation has established that the accused Asadullah Akhtar (A-7) was aware about the participation of the members of his group in the Indian Mujahideen in the Blasts at Sarojini Nagar, Delhi in 2005, Mumbai Train Blasts in 2006, Gorakhpur Blasts in 2007 and UP Courts Blasts in 2007. The accused Asadullah participated in the initial reccee in the month of August at Ahmedabad, which was later executed by the members of the Azamgarh module as Page so or277|above, and also including Sakid, Ziyab and Saquib. On 13* September, 2008, biasts were executed at different places in Delhi, where the accused A-7 had supplied materials which included ball bearings to be used as splinters in the IED's to Atif Ameen from Lucknow through the IM operative Md. Hakeem. The Blasts were executed by Atif Ameen, Mirza Shadab Beg, Saquib, Shaker, Ziya, Pappu, Khalid, Chota Sajid, Bada Sajid, Zeeshan, Shadab Ahmed and Salman. 17.51. Batla House Encounter and the subsequent change in hideouts by the IM Operatives -- Investigation has. established that aiter the blasts in Gujarat (2008), the absconding accused persons Riyaz and Iqbal Bhatkal moved to Mangalore. Anik, Asif, Akbar Choudhary, Mohsin Choudhary, Majid, Fazlu Rahman stayed in Pune, while Saif, Asadullah Akhtar @ Hadi, Atif Amin, Chota Sajid and Bada Sajid were staying in Delhi. On 19° September 2008, Batla House Encounter took place in which Atif Ameen and Chota Sajid died in an encounter with the Special Cell of the Delhi Police. A-6 was then with Riyaz and Iqbal as they had planned to celebrate Eid at Koppa Farmhouse. Abu Bhai went to his village near Mangalore for Eid celebration. On 3 October, 2008, it was learnt that some police personnel had come in plain clothes and picked up Abu Bhai @ Ahmad Bawa. They were enquiring about the delivery of consignment to Ahmedabad from Pune. So, the accused persons packed all the Valuables from the farmhouse, handed over all the food grains to a lady nearby and asked her to take care of cattle in the farmhouse. They took a bus from the village to Shimoga and then to Shikaripur- Hubli and finally reached Hyderabad. They reached near Noor-Shahi Dargah Mohalla for staying at Abdul Sattar's house, at Bandiaguda. Poge sta?Abdul Sattar @ Sainudeen was one of Riyaz's contacts. But Abdul Sattar suggested that the place was not safe and asked them to move somewhere else. So, they left Akbar Ali and Mariyam, gave them some money, a mobile and asked them to search for accommodation, During this period, they kept changing their looks frequently and wore wristband (Kade), chain etc. for disguise. On 12" October, 2008, the accused along with Riyaz and Iqbal Bhatkal reached Delhi and stayed in Tariq Anjum’s house. Later, they took a room on rent for Rs. 2500/- per month in front of Tariq’s house. When they reached Delhi, Tariq introduced Gowhar Aziz Khomei in Dubai and Darbhanga. Khom who the accused had met earlier was given task to recruit new youth for their organization to achieve the goals. Gauhar introduced them to Qateel Siddiqui. Later Mohsin Choudhary @ Ashfaq travelled with Qatee! Siddique to Darbhanga for arranging new accommodation/hideout. During the stay in Delhi their alias names were as follows:- Riyaz became Shahid, Iqbal became Habib and the accused A-6 became Imran. 17.52. Escape of the accused A-7 from India :- Investigation has established that after the encounter at Batla House, Delhi in the hideout of one Atif Amin on 19" September, 2008, the accused A-7 along with the absconding accused Mirza Shadab Beg left for Bangladesh to avoid arrest, where they stayed for about two months. The accused A-7 obtained a fake passport in the name of Mamun-ur- Rashid slo Harun-ur-Rashid resident of Dhaka, and went to Dubai in or around September 2008, where he met the absconding accused Iqbal Bhatkal and stayed there for about ten months. Investigation revealed that during the stay of the accused in Dubai, Iqbal Bhatkal was elected as the leader of Indian Mujahideen, and it was decided to severe the association with ISI as soon as possible, and shift towards Page stra?the Al Qaeda, since everyone unanimously felt that the ISI was against the true jihadi ideology. During the analysis of the recovered chat messages, one instance emerged where an indirect reference has been made to the period of their stay in Bangladesh. During the chat between A-7 and Mirza Shadaab Beg on 25" May, 2013, they discussed about one Rajiv who used to stay at Bangladesh in their room, and had sheltered them. They discussed that once in Bangladesh near their flat where A-7, Mirza Shadaab Beg, Rajiv and others were staying, police personnel had come to search but they could not come under their clutches. 17.53. Visit to Pakistan by the accused Asadullah Akhtar (A-7) for training :- Investigation established that the accused A-7 went to Pakistan in the month of September, 2009 for training purposes. In Pakistan the accused was taken to a training camp orgainsed by the ISI, at some unknown place. The accused did training in use of arms including pistol, AK47, SLR, sniper, rocket launcher, hand grenade, how to detonate explosives, how to make petrol bomb and about circuits and handling of walkie talkie sets along with training on preparing poisons, ambush, self defence and physical training, Explosive training was mostly using Ammonium Nitrate and Potassium Chlorate with fuel oll and detonator. 17.54. Formation of the Headquarters of the IM in Karachi Pakistan :- Investigation established that the absconding accused persons Md. Iqbal, Md, Riyaz and Mohsin Choudhary had escaped to Pakistan sometime around March, 2009 to evade arrest in India, and to form the safe base of launching terrorist activities in India from there, using their contacts within India, There they came in contact with the absconding IM operative Amir Reza Khan, who had been Poge 37277sheltered earlier by the ISI. Investigation further revealed that the accused Riyaz Bhatkal in order to strengthen the organisation in Pakistan, called there other some operatives based in Dubai / U.A.E including but not limited to Sultan @ Maulla, Salim Ishaqi @ Shajad, Shabar, Afeef @ Mota Bhai and Farhan @ Jabroodh for assisting in the larger conspiracy of the IM. Some of them were earlier working in the U.A.E, and had travelled on Indian Passports. Several operatives like Noor @ Anwar and Abdul Wahid @ Khan continued to stay in the U.AE,, in order to collect and supply funds to the field operatives. The absconding accused Amir Reza Khan continued to collect money for the IM through extortion from businessmen and received amount of about nearly 10 crores in 2010, when he participated in the extortion from Kolkata in India. The absconding accused persons Dr ‘Shahnawaz and Bada Sajid also joined the operatives in Pakistan. In Karachi, Riyaz had about ten laptops and forty mobile phones, which were used by the team there for contact with other operatives, in furtherance of the larger conspiracy. 17.55. Development of Hideouts at Darbhanga by the accused A-6 and others :- Investigation has established that during December, 2008, the accused persons including A-6, Riyaz Bhatkal and Iqbal Bhatkal were staying in Delhi, but wanted to change the place since their associates were getting arrested in the Ahmedabad blast cases. Hence Qateel Siddiqui was told to arrange for a rented house in Darbhanga, Bihar. He arranged the same in Lehariasarai, near Hazma Chauraha, Darbhanga at a monthly rent of Rs.2500. In or around the first week of Jan 2009 the accused A-6 along with Riyaz and Iqbal went to Darbhanga and occupied the house. Qateel received them in Darbhanga. Qateel used to meet them regularly. During their stay in Darbhanga the Al-Hira library played an important Pages 277role as a meeting point for the recruitment of new operatives. 17.56. Activities of the Md. Ahmed Siddibapa (A-6) in Darbhanga, Bihar :- Investigation has established the following were the activities of the accused person A-6 at Darbhanga, Bihar in pursuance of the conspiracy. a. The accused initially stayed at a hideout near Hajma Chouraha, where the absconding accused persons Riyaz Bhatkal, Iqbal Bhatkal and Mohsin Choudhary also stayed. Later the three persons left for reaching Pakistan, and are currently based in Karachi, Pakistan, . During the stay in Darbhanga, the accused A-6 got introduced to one Gayur Jamali who was then doing Aalin course at Madrasa Jamia Salfia in Darbhanga. Qateel’s contacts were instrumental in recruitment of the new operatives for the Darbhanga module, who later became IM cadres. The accused persons used to visit Al Hira library, meet and discuss issues of their concer. . In or around September 2008 the accused A-6 along with Qateel and his wife went to Darbhanga. He paid the house owner, Gayur’s belongings were shifted to the local Madarsa and the accommodation was vacated. Gayur then introduced the charge-sheeted accused person Aftab Alam @ Faroog to the accused who was then studying in Patna. The accused A-6 travelled and met him in Purnea at his house. He brought Aftab ‘Alam @ Faroog to Darbhanga and placed him in the new rented accommodation, and came back to Delhi. Page 5012774. Further, during the subsequent visits of A-6 to Darbhanga, (around the month of May, 2010) he was introduced to the absconding accused Tahseen Akhtar @ Monu by Gayur Jamali, Tahseen Akhtar @ Monu then introduced the charge- sheeted accused Md. Danish Ansari (A-1) for getting recruited. e. After the arrival of Adil from Pakistan, on the instructions of Riyaz Bhatkal, the accused A-6 established a new hideout with the assistance of the deceased IM operative Qatee! Siddiqui at Dharampur in Samastipur and the operatives changed their names to conceal their identities. Here Qateel became Salim, A- 6 became Arzoo, Gayur became Anwar, Tahseen became Hassan and Aftab Alam became Farooq. Later Waqas who is a resident of Punjab province of Pakistan and Tabrez @ Danial @ Haddi @ Asadullah Akhtar (A-7) also arrived at Samastipur hideout. By the end of Sept 2010 the landlord told them to vacate the place as she was expecting some guests in her house. 1. Further, after vacating the hideout at Dharampur in Samastipur, another hideout was established at Sara Mohanpur in Darbhanga. Thi ‘was used for training, They stayed there for about three months (Oct-Dec 2010) and carried out weapons, explosives and new location had sufficient open space which physical training in this area. The practical training of handling of explosive was also carried out. At this time Waqas demonstrated new type of IED using Hydrogen Peroxide for preparation. @. In or around the month of Oct, 2011, the accused A-6 went to Darbhanga to settle the payments of rented room etc. He was. planning to establish one production unit of Vinegar at Shiv Page 5607277Dhara, Darbhanga, Bihar for the purpose of cover. For this purpose, he took a rented room at Jamalchak near Shiv Dhara with the assistance of one Kafil Chacha ag payment of Rs,500/- in order to make Vinegar, he procured 50 litres of acetic acid from Kolkata, ist the monthly tification of 17.57. Disclosure and further i hide outs at Darbhanga during the police custody of Yasin Bhatkal :- During the investigation, on the 12" of September, 2013, on being asked about the hideouts the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa @ Yasin Bhatkal (A-6) mentioned about his hideouts in Bihar, Jharkhand and Goa in pursuance of the conspiracy. He also stated about the development of each hideout. He mentioned about the following hideouts in Bihar a. Hideout at Lehariasarai, near Hazma Chouraha, Darbhanga arranged by Quateel and Mohsin Choudhay at a monthly rent of, Rs.2500. b. Dar-ul-Gitab-wal-Sunnah i.e. Al Hira library frequently visited to meet and discuss issues of concem. ¢. Hideout at Dharampur colony in Samastipur, Bihar. 4. Hideout at Sara Mohanpur in Darbhanga. e. Hideout at Jamalchak, near Shiv Dhara, Darbhanga. f. Hideout located near Saint Bishop School, Khadgarha, Ranchi g. Hideouts of Asadulla Akhtar @ Haddi at Goa. 17.58. Pointing out of places of activities in Darbhanga, Bihar by the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa(A-6) :- During the investigation, the NIA team left along with the accused Mohd. Ahmed Poge 7277Siddibapa @ Yasin (A-6) to locate the above placesihideouts for pointing out by Special Flight on the basis of disclosure statement of Mohd. Ahmed Sidibapa regarding the hideouts in various places Bihar viz Samastipur, Laheriasarai, Shiv Dhara and one hideout in Ranchi where he along with his associates stayed for furtherance of the conspiracy to wage war against the Govt. of India. At Darbhanga, the accused pointed out the following :- a. Hideout at Bakarganj Abhanda, Naya Tola Islam Nagar, near Hajma Chourah, Laheriasarai where the accused alongwith his associates had stayed earlier in 2008-09. Here, the accused Mohd. Ahmed Sidibapa was identified by the owner of that house as his tenant 4 years back. b. Al Hira Public School/Dar-ul-Kitab-wal-Sunnah Library, near Millat College where the accused used to visit to meet his associates. Here, the accused was identified by Mr Khalid and Mr Farooq c. Hideout at Shiv Dhara, Jamal Chak. d. Hideout at Sara Mohanpur where the accused A-6 used to stay alongwith his associates. Here the accused was identified by the owner as Arzoo and doing practice of Unani medicines (as a cover for his nefarious activities at the time of stay). Further during the investigation in Darbhanga, the photographs of Imran @ Yasin Bhatkal (A-6) and the absconding accused Mohsin Choudhary were identified by witnesses, as having stayed in the hideout near Haima Chouraha. The owners of the other hideouts were also further examined, Pages 727717.59. Activities at the Hideout at Shaheen Bagh, Delhi :- Investigation has established that the accused A-6 stayed in Delhi at ‘Shaheen Bagh. There Gautam Khomeini introduced him to Irshad @ ‘Chacha who was running a Mechanical workshop in Mir Viner. The accused (A-6) then met Irshad and joined him in his workshop and started working for cover. In or around May 2009 Qateel joined him and started working at the same workshop. Then the accused re- established contacts with the absconding accused persons Iqbal and Riyaz who had reached Dubai and Pakistan respectively. 17.60. Visit to Kolkata by the accused Md. Ahmed Siddiba {A-6) and his arrest ;- Investigation has established that the accused ‘6 went to Kolkata alongwith Qatee! to receive some consignment of explosives, arms and ammunition from Bangladesh. They went directly to Humayun's house, which was next to Zakaria gali. Humayun is a cousin of Qateel. On being arrested by the Kolkata Police in suspicious circumstances the accused falsely disclosed his name as Ashraf, son of Arshad, resident of Barhsamaila, District — Darbhanga, Bihar. After taking judicial remand of 14 days on two occasions, the accused was granted bail. Then on reaching Delhi the accused A-6 found that all his friends had changed their locations. His accommodation in Shaheen Bagh was also rented out. During this phase he became closer to Irshad Chacha, and they decided to open ‘a workshop, 17.61. Participation of the accussed A-6 in the Conspiracy and Planning for Bomb Blasts at Pune on the 13" February, 2010 = Investigation has established that the accused A-6 personally participated in planting the bombs at German Bakery, Pune on 13” February, 2010, acti upon the instructions of Riyaz and Iqbal Page 901277Bhatkal, in order to take revenge for the police action against their group. He was assisted by the deceased IM operative Qateel Siddiqui in this conspiracy. 17.62. Participation of the accussed A-6 in the Conspiracy and Planning for Bomb Blasts at Chinnaswami Stadium on the 17" April, 2010 :- Investigation has established that the accused Md. ‘Ahmed Siddibapa (A-6) along with Aftab Alam @ Faroog (A-2), Gayur Jamali and Qatee! Siddiqui planted bombs at Chinnaswami Stadium in Bangalore at the time of IPL Cricket Match. This was done with a view to creat growth of India’s IT hub, security and thus hamper the econot 17.63. Production of cartridges _at_Mir_Vihar_factory Investigation has established that in pursuance of the conspiracy the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa along with other IM operatives decided to manufacture the cartridges at Mir Vihar Factory. The manufacturing cost of one cartridge was low and the same could be sold out in the black market for 2 higher price. This profit was good enough for livelihood as well as for carrying out target killing. For this purpose, one pistol was brought by Qateel from Munger district in Bihar. The main purpose of the pistol was to use it for test firing of the cartridges to be manufactured in the factory. Later manufacturing of cartridges was started at Mir Vihar factory. In the month of April 2011, the charge- sheeted accused Md. Danish Ansari (A-1) and another operative Assadullah @ Dilkash came to Delhi from Darbhanga. Dilkash was introduced to the accused A-6 by Kafll (age 34 years) at the library in Darbhanga. He stayed with A-6 for almost six to seven months at the factory. He developed the skill to prepare weapons and cartridges in the factory. The accused Md. Danish Ansari (A-1) during this period, Page or 277|stayed at the arms manufacturing factory for a month and then left. 17.64. Arrival_of Adil @ Azmal, resident_of Pakistan =~ Investigation has established that during the month of Aug. 2010, Riyaz Bhatkal contacted the accused (A-6) and told him that he would be sending a trained Pakistani national (Azmal) to their location for the furtherance of the conspiracy. They decided to conceal their identities while working with him. For this purpose, they established a new hideout at Dharampur colony in Samastipur, Bihar and changed their names in order to conceal identity from Azmal. So Qateel became Salim, the accused A-6 became Arzoo, Gayur became Anwar, Tehsin became Hassan and Aftab Alam became Farooq. in August 2010, Azmal arrived in the hideout located in Samastipur and was introduced with other members of their group. 17.65. Conspiracy for firing on foreigners at Paharaani, Delhi ‘= Investigation has established that in or around July 2010 as sussed with Riyaz, the accused A-6 decided to carry out an attack ‘on some foreign tourists in Paharganj area of Delhi. Azmal and Qateel were ready to carry out attack on the foreign tourists. However, the plan had failed since the carbine had fired accidentally injuring Qateel, who was then treated at the house of Gauhar Aziz Khomeini 17.66. Travel of Asadullah Akthar @ Haddi from Pakistan to India via Nepal:- Investigation has established that in pursuance of the conspiracy the accused Asadullah Akhtar (A-7) travelled back to India around September, 2010, to execute more terrorist activities after being trained for the same by the ISI in Pakistan. Riyaz told the accused A-6 that the operative Azmal was to be sent back to Pakistan immediately. Tanseen @ Monu took Azmal to Nepal via Raxaul border Paget ora77|for sending him to Pakistan. Riyaz had told the accused A-6 that he had sent two more boys who would work together in pursuance of the conspiracy. The accused coordinated Tahseen’s movement and Riyaz controlled movement of the two boys from Pakistan. Finally Tahseen could meet and receive them in Nepal. The accused A-7 landed at Kathmandu,where he was received by the absconding accused Tahseen Akhtar @ Monu @ Hassan and taken to Samastipur, Bihar at the hideout maintained by the accused person Md. Ahmed Siddibapa @ Yasin Bhatkal (A-6) and others. The accused adopted the new alias name of “Daniyal’. Another IM operative Waqas @ Javed was also received by Tahseen Akhtar at the same time. 17.67. Participation of the accussed A‘ and A-7 in the Conspiracy and Planning for terrorist attack at Jama Masjid on the 19" September, 2040 :- Investigation has established that the accused persons Tahseen @ Hassan @ Menu along with Waqas resident of Punjab, Pakistan and Tabre| @ Danial @ Haddi @ Asadullah Akhtar (A-7) on arrival at Samastipur hideout were received by the accused A-6, and introduced to others. The accused A-6 briefed them about preparation for Jama Masjid attack. After that the accused persons came to Delhi. The date of attack for Jama Masjid was fixed ‘on 19” September, 2010, keeping the anniversary of the Batla House encounter in mind. The reason for targeting the Jama Masjid, Delhi was to send a strong message with regard to the activities of foreign tourists who used to behave within the compound of the Jama Masjid in objectionable manners. The accused A-6 along with A-7, Irshad Khan and Wagas participated in the attack near Jama Masjid. The accused A-7 along with the absconding Wagas engaged in firing on the foreigners and the police, while the accused Yasin (A-6) planted Pogo erota77|bomb in a car using explosive material. Thereafter they returned to ‘Samastipur. 17.68 Participation of the accused persons A-6 and A-7 in the Conspiracy and Planning for bomb blast at Sheetlaghat, Varanasi ‘on the 7" December, 2010 :- Investigation has established that the accused A-6 alongwith Waqas, Tahseen Akhtar @ Monu and Asadullah ‘Akhtar @ Haddi (A-7) participated in the conspiracy and actual execution of terrorist attack in Varanasi on 7" Dec 2010 to mark the anniversary of Babri Majid demolition on the 6" December, and to protest against the verdict of the High court on Ayodhya issue. attack. \Wagas alongwith Asadullah @ Haddi took the IED and planted it. 17.69 Activities at_Sara Mohanpur_hideout_and_shift_to Investigation has established that during the stay of the Mumbai accsued persons A6 and A-7 at the room in Darbhanga with Sheikh chilli (4-2) and Wagas, several persons including but not limited to Abdullah @ Danish, Sayeed @ Tara Babu, Anwar @ Jamali, Hassan and Abdur Rehman, used to visit the room and meet the accused persons. Waqas and the accused A-6 continued with their experiment of making different types of explosives. Around 15" December, 2010, A left for Delhi and A-7 along with Wagas continued to stay at the room. On 1* of January 2011, Tahseen Akhtar @ Monu @ Hassan’s father came to their room and questioned regarding Hassan's stay with them. There was an argument and he took Hassan with him to his house at Samastipur. He also threatened them to stay away from Tahseen or else he would inform the police about their suspicious activities. Then, the accused A-7 and Wagas changed the hideout at Darbhanga. Thereafter the accused persons A-7 and Wagas shifted to Mumbai for stay in a new hideout. At Mumbai they stayed in a rented Pages 1277room adjacent to the Byculla railway station. This room was rented for them by Yasin (A-6) and was previously used by Nagi and Nadeem, both residents of Darbhanga area in Bihar, who were known to the accused A-6, 17.70 Establishment of Hideout in Mumbai for stay of the accused persons Wagas and _Asadullah_Akhtar_(A-7) Investigation has established that in January 2011, due to the apprehension regarding the conduct of Tahseen Akhtar @ Monu's father in Darbhanga, the accused A-6 alongwith Wagas and ‘Assadullah went to Mumbai from Darbhanga and met with one Naqui who used to stay at Madanpura in Mumbai Central. Naqui arranged fone rented room on a monthly rent of Rs. 8000/- near Byculla Railway Station opposite Irani restaurant with the help of one property dealer named Sultan. They started living in this house. After Waqas and Assadullah (A-6), got settled the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa (A-6) ‘came back to Delhi in the month of Feb 2011 17.71 Stay at Mumbai by the accused Asadullah Akhtar @ Haddi :- During the investigation, it was established that the accused persons A-7 and Wagas had stayed at the hideout in Mumbai. The acoused had interacted regularly with the agent who was unaware about their activities. They had made an attempt to go back for collecting the amount of security deposit after virtually vacating the house, but did not reach the land owner having developed an apprehension of subsequent arrest by the police. The following instances emerged from the analysis of recovered chat messages :- a. During the chat between A-7 and Mirza Shadaab Beg on 27" May, 2013, Shadab Beg told A-7 that he saw the news about search at his Byculla flat from where only some clothes and one Page 63277mat was found. A-7 boasted that the police could find nothing at the Byculla flat and also mentioned that it was he who had removed everything from the Byculla flat. A-7 also mentioned about the audacity of their group since even though everything was removed, they had retumed to collect money (security deposit) b. During the chat between A-7 and Mirza Shadaab Beg on 5" June, 2013, it was discussed that when A-7 was living there his neighbours thought of had assisted in obtaining the house used to visit them regularly and often boasted about his network and criminal past. They and about his job etc. One agent who discussed hilariously that the same man was reportedly kept standing by the Police, when they came to inquire about their activities and his association with them. They discussed further to teach a lesson to the Police. 17.72 Marriage of A-6 with Zahida Khanum, daughter of Irshad Khan, resident of. Samastipur:- Investigation revealed that the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa gradually became very close with Irshad Khan and married his daughter Zahida, in or around March, 2011. 17.73 Participation of the accussed A-6 and A-7 in the Conspiracy and execution of the bomb blasts at Mumbai on the 13" July, 2011 :- Investigation has established that the accused persons Md. Ahmed Siddibapa (A-6) and Asadullah Akhtar @ Haddi (A-7) planted IED's along with other absconding accused persons Tahseen Akhtar @ Monu @ Hassan and Waqas @ Javed @ Mota Bhai, which led to the bomb blasts at Jhaveri Bazar, Opera House and Kabutarkhana in Mumbai on the 13" of July, 2011. Pages 0727717.74 Arrest of IM Cadres in November, 2011 and subsequent change in_hideouts; Role of ‘Black Beauty’ in Ranchi = In November, 2011, several IM operatives were arrested from Darbhanga and nearby places by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police. The accused along with Irshad Khan @ Chacha went to Chennai to Abdur Rehman’s place and stayed there for about 8 days. On 27" Nov 2011, ‘Abdur Rehman and Irshad Khan were arrested from the hideout in Chennai, but the accused A-6 managed to escape. He stole one black Splendor motor cycle and went to Bangalore. Then he went to Tumkur Railway Station and boarded a train heading towards Kanpur. From there, he went to Unnao to the house of Master Bashir @ Talaha. During this period of next 25 days, he was continuously travelling from North to south and vice versa (Unnao, Kanpur, Goa, Kerala, Patna, and Mangalore) in order to evade arrest. Investigation has established about his stay in Goa and Ranchi during this period, and about the activities of one “Black Beauty” at Ranchi. a. Visit to Goa :- Investigation has established that the accused A-6 thereafter visited Goa where he stayed at one Mohd, Saeed’s place. The accused A-6 had acquaintance with Md. Saeed since Moulvi Shabir used to stay at their village i.e. Tonsehude for sometime. He had information that Mohd Saeed had a shoe shop near Panaji bus-stand. At his place he met one Imtiyaz from the same village. On the direction of Riyaz he then located Wagas and Asadullah Akhtar @ Tabrez (A-7) in Goa. In or around the last week of December 2011, he met Wagas and Tabrez in Goa at Calagute beach. This meeting was coordinated by Riyaz who was in touch with them, A-6 then stayed in Goa for the next seven to eight days. Page 277b. Visit to Ranchi :- On 12" /13" January, 2012, the accused A-6 ‘went to Ranchi from Goa and stayed there in a house located near Saint Bosco school, Khadgarha, district Ranchi where the accsued Tahseen Akhtar @ Monu was already staying. A-6 had travelled from Goa by train to Ranchi. Monu had called him to Khadgarha Bus Stand. Earlier Riyaz had told him over chat that Monu would be meeting him at that place. They both walked to his, place. . Association of T: th Bi: - Investigation has established that the accused Tahseen Akhtar @ Monu after the arrests made in Darbhanga had stayed in Patna for sometime, and then shifted to Ranchi. He had taken assistance of one “Blackbeauty” (later identified as Haider Ali @ Abdullah) to find suitable hideout in Ranchi, During the examination of the accused A-6, ‘Black Beauty’ was revealed to be an associate and good friend of known SIMI operative Manzer Imam who was arrested by the NIA earlier in connection with case No. RC- 4/2010/NIA/DLI (Vagamon Training Camp of SIMI). The details of Black Beauty also emerged during the analysis of the chat between the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa @ Yasin Bhatkal (A-6) and Md. Riyaz @ Riyaz Bhatkal 17.75 Pointing out of hideout in Ranchi, Jharkhand by the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa (A-6) and subsequent recoveries made from hideout :- During the investigation at Ranchi, the accused Mohd. Ahmed Sidibapa @ Yasin Bhatkal (A-6) pointed out the house of Hazi Imtiaz as the hideout where he had stayed along with the absconding accused Tahseen Akhtar @ Monu. The photograph of Tahseen Akhtar @ Monu was identified by the neighbour as having Page 67277stayed there with a Hindu Name. It was further revealed that the absconding accused Tahseen during the period of stay, used to put on Tilak on his forehead to pretend as being a Hindu worshipper. For obiaining cover, the accused Tahseen also used to teach little kids of the locality and had introduced himself as a student before the neighbours. A number of clothes of the accused Tahseen Akhtar and also of Md. Ahmed Siddibapa were duly seized upon being produced in a plastic bag. The house owner, i.e. Hazi Imtiaz had segregated the said clothes from the room kept them separately for renting the said room to other persons, as the accused persons had not retumed since long time. 17.76 Establishement of hideouts in Goa and Belgaum ~- Investigation has established that the accused persons A-7 and Wagas continued to stay at the same place and observed Ramzan fasting and remained in touch with Yasin through chat. One day prior to Ramzan festival A-7 and Wagas left for Goa by train and stayed at Madgaon, Panjit two months i.e. around September 2011, they both again visited Goa at the instance of Riyaz Bhatkal and took a house on rent (Rs. 7,000/- pm) from one Mr. Chari near Anjuna Beach. In March 2012, as desired by Riyaz, they also acquired a new hideout in Belgaum. This hideout was in Azam Nagar and arranged through an agent. During their stay in Belgaum, the accused persons A-7 and Waqas travelled to Mangalore from Belguam to collect explosives for the Jungli Maharaj Road, Pune blasts (2012). During their stay at Belgaum, both A-6 and ‘AT prepared an IED with container in boat shape using plywood and Aluminium sheets which were used in Pune blasts. , Anjuna beach and retumed after three days. After 17.77 Participation of the accused persons A-7 and Wagas in Pages 7277Blasts at Pune on 4“ August, 2012 :- During investigation A-7 in his confessional statement has stated that he and Wagas along with other IM operatives including but not limited to Feroz, Hamza, Imran and ‘Asad participated in the planning and execution of the blasts in Pune. 17.78 Establishing hideout at Mangalore by Waqas and Asadulla:- Investigation has established that the accused persons A-7 and Wagas reached Mangalore in the end of September 2012, and acquired a new hideout by renting a room in the Zephyr Heights Apartments. 17.79 Disclosure and further ident Goa during the police custody of Asadullah Akhtar:- On the 13" ‘September, 2013, the accused Asaduliah Akhtar, in continuation to his earlier statements, on being further asked regarding his visits to Goa, discussed following facts ication of the hide outs at a. Stay in a hotel shown by the auto-rickshaw driver for 3-4 days in or around 25 to 27" Aug 2011 during his first visit to Goa with Wagas from Mumbai, and further for 3 days during the Second visit to Goa from Mumbai with Waqas, in the second week of October 2011 b. Stay in Hideout near Anjuna Beach (in rented house owned by one Mr. Chari), where he had left his Yamaha RX 100 (second hand purchased black motorcycle) and kitchen items, beddings, chemicals like acid, personal cloths ete. ©. Meeting with Md. Ahmed Siddibapa (A-6) in 2011, near Calangute. d. Place visited in Panjim with Md. Ahmed Siddibapa (A-6) for collection of bag. Pages 7277e. Cyber café located at Calagute used by him - Bagha road. f. House they had taken on rent in Panjim city g. Hut he used for staying at the Palolem beach 17.80 Pointing out of hideouts in Goa by the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa @ Yasin Bhatkal and Asadullah Akhtar @ Haddi and subsequent recoveries made from Goa :- During investigation, on15" September, 2013 A-6 and A-7 were taken to Goa for discovery of new facts as disclosed by them. The following places were pointed out at Goa by A-6 and A-7 = . Hide out at Gauriwadda, Betim Goa, where the accused A-6 had stayed during 2011/2012. b.Hide out near Anjuna Beach (in the rented house of Shri Chari) where the accused persons had stayed as tenants during the year 2011-12 (roughly from October, 2011 to January, 2012) as disclosed. 1781 Investigation and Recoveries at Goa Investigation at Goa established that the accused persons during their stay used to experiment in making several types of explosives using chemicals obtained from the market. They had also purchased a motorcycle for the furtherance of their nefarious activities. During field investigation at Goa the following emerged :- i, The owner IEEE was examined during the investigation at Goa. Several items which had been left behing by the accused persons, were duly seized upon production by EEE. The items included Yamaha Motor Cycle RX 100 (Black colour) with registration number SEN, Bottles with Nitric Page 7907277Acid, Picric Acid, Toluene (presumably used in making explosives by experimentation) along with _ laboratory equipments which were recovered from the soil where they were lying after being disposed off by the house owner. Documents connected with the stay of the accused persons including the photocopy of Format for Information of Tenants alongwtih identification cards attached therewith viz. Election ID card, photocopy of handwritten Receipt dated 06-11-2011 given by Shri NMG to Shri Nabeel Ahmed as receipt of having received Rs 30,000/- as deposit and monthly rent fixed as Rs 7,500/- under the signature of Shri HE 1c others wore seized. The house owner identified the photographs of Wagas as having stayed on rent along with the accused persons A-6 and A-7. li, During investigation of Md. Ahmed Siddibapa’s contacts in Goa, one SEMIN (cermanent native of Tonsehude, PS Manpe, Dist- Udipi, Karnataka and presently owner of a footwear shop in Goa) was examined. It was established that the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa had utilised his acquaintance with MIMI wio was known to him since he had visited his vilage Moulana Shabbir used to visit persons like IS ond BEM to discuss matters relating to carrying out terrorist activities for Jihad. It was established that the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa also used {0 visit Moulana Sabir regularly and motivated the people of that village for carrying out action in the form of Jihad, Further (EI wert to Dubai where he met ‘Ahmed at Khali’s place. It was established that the accused A- 6 then used to motivate TTI to join him in his Page 71277activities by citing examples from religious literatures. In December, 2011, the accused A-6 met [IEE in Goa at his shop and stayed in the rented house at Gouriwadda, Goa. 17.82 Collection of DNA Samples of the accused persons and their comparison with the items seized at Rancl out - ‘On the 16" of September, 2013, the blood samples of the accused persons were collected as permitted by the Ld. Court for further sending to the CDFD, Hyderabad for generating DNA fingerprints for ‘comparison with exhibits seized from Ranchi (as above) in the instant case and experts opinion thereof. The report has confirmed that the accused A-6 used to stay at the said hideout, since his DNA samples matched with those found on some clothes seized from the hideout at Ranchi where A-6 had stayed. 17.83 Items seized from Goa sent to CFSL, Delhi During investigation, the items recovered from the hideout at Goa were sent to the CFSL, CBI, Delhi for examination about the details of chemicals available in the container and whether the chemicals could be used as explosives for causing blasts. 17.84 Establishment of hideout _in Pokhara, Nepal = Investigation has established that in or around February, 2012, acting upon the instructions of the absconding accused Md. Riyaz @ Riyaz Bhatkal, the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa @ Yasin Bhatkal (A-6) travelled to Nepal in search of a safe hideout. After initial survey, the accused finally settled in Pokhara. 17.85 Activities of the accused Md. Ahmod Siddibapa @ Yasin Bhatkal (A-6) in Nepal Hideout :- Investigation has established that in or around August 2012, the accused A-6 sent Tahseen Akhtar Page 720277@ Monu to India on the instructions of Riyaz for the furtherance of terrorist activities in India. During the festival of Bakrid in the month of October, 2012, while he was staying alone, he decided to go to Annapurna peak which was visible from Pokhara, so that his neighbors may not have any suspicion about his cover, having stated that he was from India and thus to give the impression that he was going to India for celebration with his family. He went to Annapurna and spent 17 days there visiting places like Marfa, Tunnhe, Kaloopani, Talopani on foot as it was not motorable. (The same has been confirmed from the recovered Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 16" December, 2012, where Riyaz had asked Md. Ahmed (A-6) about the skin problem that he had developed dus to high altitude trekking (in Annapurna ranges)). in November 2012, Riyaz asked him to vacate the earlier accommodation for security reasons, since it was known to the absconding accused person Tahseen Akhtar @ Monu. Then he met the head of the Muslim Basti near Pokhara namely Mr. Abdullah @ Bal Bahadur Thapa, a retired soldier from Indian Army, while looking for a safe hideout. Other important figures in the Basti who used to assist inhabitants in day to day affairs were also contacted. One Imam namely [EEE lived in a small Masjid in the colony. He was an Indian, and was staying in Tarai region. The accused A-6 started meeting these people to explore the possiilly of recruitment for jihad. He was also in touch of with the brother of I namely MEE The accused travelled to the native vilage of IIE in village iE cist 17.86 Participation of the accused persons A-7, Waqas and Tahseen Akhtar @ Monu @ Hassan in Dilsukhnaaar bl: t Hyderabad (21" February, 2013) :- Investigation has established that the accused persons A-7 along with the absconding accused persons Page 7301277Wagas and Tahseen Akhtar @ Monu participated in the execution of the blasts at Hyderabad on the 21% February, 2013, acting upon the directions of the absconding accused Riyaz Bhatkal. In the statement recorded u/s. 164 CrPC, the accused A-7 has stated that he had prepared a plan at Bangalore while chatting with Riyaz Bhatkal to do something at Hyderabad. 17.87 __ Participation of the accussed A-6 in the Conspiracy of the bomb blasts at Dilsukhnagar, Hyderabad on the 21" February, 2013 :- Investigation has established that the accused A-6 while staying at Pokhara in Nepal was fully involved in the conspiracy that led to the blasts at Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad on the 21" of February, 2013. It has emerged from the analysis of the chat conversations between the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa (A-6) and Md. Riyaz @ Riyaz Bhatkal, that the accused had full knowledge of the plan for conduct of the blasts and even prayed for the success of the blasts. The following instances emerged during the analysis of the Chats a.During Chat of AG with Riyaz (between A-6 with ID as hbbahadur @ yahoo.com and Riyaz Bhatkal on ID patara_singh@ yahoo.com) on the 28" November, 2012, Md. Riyaz @ Riyaz Bhatkal mentioned that he was thinking of doing some work (je. bomb blasts). He in the further chat at 5.10 mentioned that a lot of anti Muslim activity had happened in Hyderabad area (code H) and that he was planning to send Tahseen Akhtar @ Monu for the work there, and also that he had a chat with Monu before chatting with the accused A-6 b. During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 16” December, 2012, Riyaz mentioned that Hassan @ Monu was doing fine and was Page 8277thinking for daawati work, i.e. for the preparation of blasts in Hyderabad. At this time, Monu was looking for a house in the interior areas of Hyderabad, and once that would be obtained, then the next step towards the task would be taken. ¢, During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 20" December, 2012, A-6 asked Riyaz about the status of the job (i.e. of Hyderabad Blasts to be conducted), to which he replied that the explosive had yet not been arranged, and that he was trying for their arrangement. He informed that the police were badly looking for Daniyal and Wagas. Since A-6 was not there with them, they had to tread very cautiously. A-6 then advised Riyaz to do 2-3 blasts at a new place and that thereafter they should leave the location and 90 faraway. Riyaz informed A-6 that they were at a new place and if everything went on well then they could stay at that location for a long time. Suggesting about the design of the IED's to be used, A-6 advised him to make thin boat shaped IED's for the blast of 1 kg explosive each, which could be carried easily even by tying on the stomach. But Riyaz told that they were planning for big IED’s. A-6 told him that such small IED's will have more impact. A-6 asked Riyaz to try Picric Acid for making bombs. But Riyaz said that he was trying for the basic explosive generally used since it was effective. A-6 told them to go for Picric acid, if the gelatin was not obtained since gelatin was difficult to procure and also got spoilt with time. d. During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 27" December, 2012, A-6 asked about the status of the work for which Hassan @ Tahseen had gone. Riyaz told that it was in pending stage, but Tahseen was working from his ‘tur’ and had met friends at the Page 7507277place of stay. He was presently working on them. The second thing was that they would soon get the explosives. They were expected to be obtained in this week. Riyaz further informed that the plan was to send Tahseen @ Monu to Danial @ Asadullah Akhtar (A-7) and Wagas for the execution of the task. A6 advised for not keeping the explosive unused for long time. AG again reminded Riyaz that Picric acid could be tried (for making explosives) this time, but he refused. e. During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 30" December, 2012, A-6 asked about the stage of preparation of the Blasts to be conducted, to which Riyaz replied that the explosives were ‘expected in a week's time. Daniyal was asking Riyaz whether A- 6 would join him. Riyaz further mentioned that the Explosives were to be collected from the supplier of Mumbai Blasts of 13" July 2011, and that there was @ different supplier for the Pune 1" Aug, 2012 Blast. During Chat A-6 told him that white gelatin was good for explosion, and that red was not good. Riyaz mentioned that their main explosive supplier's contact was lost. Riyaz told that now they were purchasing white, but even white {got spoilt during the last time i.e. Pune Blast of 1" August, 2012, due to long time of stocking. Riyaz recalled that white gelatin taken before the Gujarat Blasts had been kept for long time in packed condition in Almirah in Koppa. Riyaz mentioned that even now they had stock at one place, but the person who had ithad run away due to fear. f, During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 22 January, 2013, A-6 asked Riyaz about the status of planning of the blasts. Riyaz then mentioned that they had succeded in procuring Page 760277explosives. However, Daniyal was complaining about the ‘explosives, and that there was a discussion about the quality of the explosives. Riyaz had then asked for picture of the explosive received to get an idea of the quality. The two had a discussion ‘on the quality of the explosives. g. During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 27" January, 2013, Riyaz told A-6 that Tahseen was to start for the tour in connection with the blast today i.e on that day. h. During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 7 February, 2013, Riyaz informed that Hassan was looking for house (in Hyderabad) and had been able to find house only today i.e. on that day and that they were going to meet tomorrow. Riyaz referred that Tahseen was at the place where blast was to be done, and was looking for a house since many days. A-6 prayed for the success of the blast. Riyaz informed him that Daniyal and Waqas had also sent greetings to Md, Ahmed (A-6). A-6 was feeling very half hearted due to not being involved in the blast planning and told about this to Riyaz. Then he told A-6 that he had done a good job in Nepal and had created a good network there. Riyaz further mentioned that all was ready for the blast, only house was required, which had also been obtained. i. During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 11" February, 2013, Riyaz told A-6 that Daniyal had gone to Hassan. Then he informed A-6 that he had been chatting with Waqas at that time on another line and that he had got delayed in chatting with A-6 due to talking with those three. Wagas had to travel with explosive Page 7277today i.e. on that day, and Riyaz was making arrangements. Riyaz asked A-6 to pray for the success of the blast. j. During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 16" February, 2013, Riyaz told him that on the previous day Daniyal and Waqas had gone to meet Hassan @ Monu (in Hyderabad) but Hassan had not sent any message. Riyaz asked A-6 not to stay at any place connected with Hassan, since he was wary after not receiving any message with Monu. k. During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 17" February, 2013, Riyaz mentioned that he had received message from the trio in the evening and further that the blast would soon be done, so A-6 should pray that the explosive may work correctly during the blast. Riyaz had asked them to put all detonators in the IED. He had put all 50 detonators in the IED. They discussed that Hassan did not know the location where A-6 was currently staying, A-6 had taken due care to ensure that no old contact knew about his new location. A-6 told Riyaz that the old room where he and Hassan lived in Pokhara, Nepal was also still retained, and then Riyaz asked him to be cautious till Hassan reached his original location. He told A-6 that he was planning to call Daniyal to Pakistan via Nepal and discussed with him as to where he could be kept in Nepal after the blasts. |. During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 20" February, 2013, Riyaz told A-6 that the blast (Hyderabad) was scheduled for the next day, and asked to specially pray for the success of the blasts. Riyaz mentioned that the explosives had also been checked. He Page 78277also mentioned that Daniyal was soon going to be sent to Nepal. They then discussed about shelter in hideout for Daniyal. 17.88 Disclosure _of the accused Asadullah Akhatar @ Haddi (A-7) about his role in the planning and commission of the Hyderabad , Dilsukhnagar Blasts dated 21° February, 2013 :- That during the examination the accused Asadullah Akhatar @ Haddi (A-7) disclosed that he along with the accused persons Waqas @ Javed @ Mota Bhai and Tahseen Akhtar @ Monu @ Hassan carried out the blasts in Dilsukhnagar, Hyderabad on 21" February 2013 on the instructions of senior IM operatives Md. Riyaz @ Riyaz Bhatkal and Md. Iqbal @ Iqbal Bhatkal. He further disclosed that as per the direction of Riyaz Bhatkal, he and Wagas had moved from Belgaum to Mangalore in the month of September 2012. At Mangalore they rented a flat in an Apartment building near Hammpankatta. During their stay fat Mangalore in the first week of February, 2013, Riyaz Bhatkal informed him over chat, that in a few days explosive material would be delivered to him in Mangalore as he had to carry out blasts in Hyderabad along with Wagas and Hassan @ Tahseen @ Monu. In the first week of February 2013, he had received the explosive material from an unknown person in a golden coloured trolley bag sent by Riyaz Bhatkal. The material was delivered near a Hospital in Mangalore. After receiving the explosives, he kept the explosive material at their flat. This explosive material was taken to Hyderabad by him & Waqas. At Hyderabad, Hassan had rented a house in the outskirts. The bombs were assembled in 2 pressure cookers. They were kept on two old bicycles & then planted at Dilsukhnagar market place. After the explosion he and Wagas returned to Mangalore. The next day he left Mangalore for Bangalore to proceed to Nepal, while Wagas stayed back in the same flat. The accused Asadullah Akhtar Page 7901277further volunteered to identify and point out places related to their activities, if taken to Mangalore and Hyderabad. 17.89 Pointing out of associated Places in Mangalore :- On the 6" September, 2013 and 7" September, 2013, the accused Assdullah Akhtar was taken to Mangalore and Hyderabad with proper security for pointing out of the places as discussed above. In Mangalore, on the 6" September, 2013, the accused pointed out several places including :- a, Places of receipt of explosives on the instructions of Riyaz Bhatkal. . Places of booking of tickets. c. Shop visited for purchase of digital watches for the preparation of bombs, 4. Shops visited for purchase of mobile phone set and SIM cards. fe, Shop where they received funds sent by Riyaz through Wester Union Money Transfer. {. Cyber Cafes and Restaurants frequently visited by them. 9. shop called “Ding Dong’ where he had received the Hawala money for an amount of Rs.1,00,000/- sent by Riyaz Bhatkal during October 2012. fh. Flat used for their stay at 3° Floor of the Zephyr Heights building on Attavar Road, 17.90 Recovery based on the disclosures u/s. 27 Evidence Act_in Mangalore The NIA recovered incriminating articles at Mangalore during the search conducted on the 6” September, 2013, between 01:00 PM to 05:00 PM, in the presence of the house owner and independent witnesses from a Flat located at Zaphyr Building where the accused, Asadullah Akhtar, Wagas and Tehseen @ Monu used to stay on rent prior to the Dilsukhnagar, Hyderabad Blast. The Page a0 or 277|articles recovered included explosives, detonators, timer devices, batteries, electronic circuits, diodes and materials used for making IED's along with other items of daily usage as mentioned in the seizure list. The seized items were later transferred to NIA Hyderabad Branch for the investigation of Hyderabad Blasts Cases (NIA Case Nos. RC-01 & 02/2013/NIA/Hyd) 17.91 Pointing out of associated Places in Hyderabad :- In Hyderabad, on the 6” September, 2013 and 7" September, 2013, the accused Asadullah pointed out several places including :- a. Place of purchase of bicycles used in Dilsukhnagar Blasts. b. Place of making call to Tahseen Akhtar @ Monu ©. Place where Hassan @ Monu was standing 4. Shop of purchaseof two pressure cookers used to prepare the ED. €. Sites of planting the bombs. 8 of parking the old cycles before the blast. g. House, used for stay along with Wagas and Hassan @ Monu before the bomb blasts in Hyderabad, h. Place where he and Hassan @ Monu threw the electronic watches and trolley bag in which the explosive material was brought, after damaging it 17.92 Recovery based on the disclosures ws. 27 Evidence Act_in_ Hyderabad On completion of the Pointing out Memo proceedings in front of house of the stay of the accused persons A-7, Wagas and Tahseen Akhtar @ Monu, search and seizure proceedings were conducted at the house. The accused led the NIA team into the ‘compound of the house and on observation, very few articles like some construction material and other items viz., empty water bottles, Page ata?tooth brush, comb with black colour hair like strands, insulation of wire were found, which were duly seized. Two electronic watches were found in the bushes at the place pointed out by the accused A-7. Both the watches sealed elong with the soil control sample, At the place where he, Hassan @ Monu and Waqas threw away the damaged trolley bag, in which the explosive material was brought, on being searched thoroughly, the damaged trolley bag was found. The bag when checked was found to contain four long handles and two short handles of pressure cookers. Each of these items were packed separately and seized along with the soil control sample. 17.93 Shift of the accused Asadullah Akhtar @ Haddi to Nepal :- Investigation has revealed that after the Hyderabad blasts, photographs of important absconders of the IM i.e. Asadullah, Waqas, Tahseen @ Monu were published in the national newspapers. The photograph of the accused Asadullah (A-7) was seen by the accused persons to be very clear. Thus on the instructions of the accused Riyaz Bhatkal, the accused Asadullah (A-7) also shifted to Nepal Investigation revealed that after the blasts at Hyderabad, the accused A-T and Wagas left for Mangalore on the 2°" February, 2013. From. Mangalore, the accused A-7 went to Raxaul via Patna. From Raxaul, the accused A-7 shifted to Birgunj, Nepal and thereafter to Pokhara, Nepal where he met the arrested accused A-6, and started staying together at Lake side, Pokhara.The following details related to the shifting of the accused A-7 emerged during the analysis of the Chats -- a. During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 27" February, 2013, Riyaz directed him to make arrangements for Daniyal. He asked A-6 to give new number urgently to be given to Daniyal (A-7) for his contacting in Nepal. Page 820277b. During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 2"! March, 2013, Riyaz gave number of Daniyal (A-7) to A-6 as 9805822626 (N Cell number of Nepal). He told A:6 not to go in front of him til full security was confirmed. ©. During Offline Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 4" March, 2073, it ‘was indicated that Daniyal (A-7) had reached Nepal. 4. During Offiine Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 6” March, 2013, Riyaz again asked A-6 to change the room where he had stayed with Hassan. A-6 informed him that he was trying for a new room. e. During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 9" March, 2013, Riyaz informed A-6 that he had given passports to be made for the two (ie. for Monu and Wagas) and that he would try that they would be boarding the flight from the place where he was staying i.e. Nepal. Riyaz informed A-6 that the passports were being made from Kerala, A-6 asked about the duration in which the passports ‘would be made, to which he mentioned that it would be around 1 month. A-6 then told Riyaz that he and A-7 were staying at a distance from each other and met at nights. A-6 asked about Monu and Wagas to which he said that the two did not know about the stay of Daniyal with A-6 in Nepal. He further mentioned that Monu and Wagas were to be called back to Pakistan, and that they would be taken on flight from Nepal, thus. from security point of view, he wanted to keep them separate from Daniyal. 17.94 Activities of the accused Asadullah Akhtar in Nepal : - Page as 1277Investigation has established that the accused A-7 during the period of his stay at hideout in Pokhara, Nepal, was in contact with Riyaz Bhatkal and other associates based in Pakistan. There he came to know that other members of IM had developed some differences with Riyaz and that only Iqbal Bhatkal, Mohsin Chaudhary and Jabrodh were fully with Riyaz. Dr. Shahnawaz, Khalid, Mirza Shadab Baig, Abu Rashid had formed a separate group. Mirza Shadab Baig and Bada Sajid had associated themselves with other international terrorist organizations like the Al Qaeda and the Taliban. 17.95 Visit to Cyber Cafes by the accused ns durin: Stay in Nepal :- Investigation has established that the accused A-7 used to communicate his with other accomplices using chat messenger services on the internet. During the stay in Pokhara, they Used to visit cyber cafes. 17.96 Attempts to indoctrinate more individuals into working for the IM in Nepal :- Investigation has established that during the Nepal stay, the accused A-6 and A-7 made attempts to indoctrinate certain individuals and mentally prepared them for receiving arms training in Pakistan. Several others were contacted for obtaining cover or for obtaining documents related to identity. Some of the individuals who were contacted in Nepal have emerged from the seized mobile phones, pieces of paper and seized digital items are as follows; a. One Jamshed whose mobile number was found saved in the mobile of A-6. ». One Imam Mohibullah whose mobile number was found saved in the mobile of A-6. ©. One Siraj Sahab, the headman of the Pratappur village whose mobile number was found saved in the mobile of A-6. Page es 2774. One Zakirulla or Zakrullah’, a resident of Khatwaiya area of Pratappur, Rohtaht, Nepal, whose mobile number was found saved in the mobile of A-6. e. One “Azam chacha” whose mobile number was found saved in the mobile of A-6. He is the uncle of one Mehboob and employed in the Police Department in Dubai. Azam helped them in getting Rs. 2 lakhs in the month of July, 2013. He was introduced to A-6 by Mehboob who ran a mobile shop in Lakeside, Pokhara area. The money was sent by the accused Riyaz Bhatkal from Dubai through Azam. Azam was reportedly not fully aware about their a ties. 17.97 Role of the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa in the conspiracy for conducting Bomb Blasts in Bodh Gaya : - During the investigation of the instant case it was established that the accused A-6 was a part of the conspiracy and planning to conduct terrorist attacks on Buddhists and particularly at the World Heritage site of Bodh Gaya, visited by tourists from around the world, and being the most sacred of all Buddhist sites. Investigation established that the accused persons A-6 and Riyaz Bhatkal along with their other associates were planning to conduct attacks in Bodh Gaya with the assistance of SIMI (another proscribed outtit called as the Students Islamic Movement of India) operatives from Ranchi. From the perusal of the Chat between the accused A-6 and Md. Riyaz @ Riyaz Bhatkal, itis clear that the accused Md. Ahmed Siddibapa @ Yasin Bhatkal (A~ 6) and Asadullah Akhtar @ Haddi (A-7) did not actually physically participate in the Bomb Blasts at Bodh Gaya which took place on the 7” July 2013, by Md. Riyaz @ Riyaz Bhatkal. However, the perusal of the chats has clearly established that a planning to conduct attacks at Bodh Gaya was underway by the operatives of the IM since 2012, Page as 7277when a group of its operatives including the accused in the instant case namely Imran Khan (A-3) and Syed Magbool (A-4) were arrested. During the chat between the accsued persons Md. Ahmed Siddibapa (A-6) and Md. Riyaz @ Riyez Bhatkal, Riyaz had discussed about doing something in Gaya as revenge against the atrocities by the Buddhists against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. The accused persons discussed about it at several occasions through internet chats. The accused A-6 was certainly aware of the efforts being made by Riyaz Bhatkal to carry out some blasts in Bodh Gaya with the assistance to be provided by SIMI operatives including one ‘Black Beauty’ (later identified as the absconding accused Haider Ali @ Abdullah) and his associates in Ranchi, to the absconding accused Tahseen Akhtar @ Monu, then based in Ranchi. The absconding accused Tahseen was in constant touch with the SIMI operatives, and used to motivate them to support and join the activities of the IM. The arrest of SIMI operative Manzer Imam, who was being contacted by Riyaz Bhatkal, as per the details emerged during the analysis of the chat between Riyaz Bhatkal and A-6, as subsequently described in this Supplementary Charge-Sheet, disturbed the safety of Tahseen Akhtar @ Monu in Ranchi for sometime. The following instances related to the discussion about conducting attacks in Bodh Gaya, emerged during the analysis of the Chats :~ a, During the chat on the 5" December, 2012, Riyaz told A-6 that Monu had paid compliments to him. Monu’s friend i.e. Black Beauty had informed that explosives could be obtained from his location. Riyaz informed A-6 that if the explosives were obtained from there then they were thinking about ‘conducting attack in Gaya. Pages 7277b. During the chat on the 5 December, 2012, Riyaz again told ‘A-6 that he was thinking of action in Gaya. A-6 told him that all will happen at the destined time. Riyaz told A-6 that they should make efforts. A-6 told him that nothing had happened in Gaya till date. Riyaz told A-6 that earlier there was no security in Gaya. But after the disclosure made by the arrested IM operatives, the security had increased manifold. He further mentioned that there were two ways which went to Gaya and where 24 hours patrolling was being done. A reserve force contingent was also camping there since the matter had opened after their friends were arrested. When A-6 asked him ‘as to how did the arrested operatives were aware about the plan, Riyaz replied that they had to be sent there for recee and thus it had been discussed with them to do the attack soon. A second group was also involved in the plan, which created a lot of confusion. c. During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 23" March, 2013, Riyaz talked about recent atrocities on Muslims in Myanmar and that many Muslims had been killed. He further told A-6 that those Rohingyas who had fled to Thailand on the previous day had suffered badly since their camps were burnt and 50 Muslims had died. A-6 told him that they must do the attack in Gaya. Riyaz told A-6 that if DVO (Guns) were obtained then they must invest ie. attack in Gaya. A-6 asked him as to how much time it was going to take, to which he said that he was thinking only about attacks in Gaya. d. During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 11 May, 2013, Riyaz then told A-6 that he had met someone whose community's Poge a7 277contact lived on the Rajasthan border within Pakistan. This man was an old timer and had lived with Mullah Omer (of the Taliban), and possibly with Osama bin Laden (of the Al Qaeda) ‘as well, had crossed 5-6 times, was Burmese and wanted to start the struggle in Burma, and had come to Riyaz for help. The man mentioned that he was planning to take arms and ammunition from Pakistan for use in Myanmar, through the Indo-Pak border. Riyaz mentioned that he would accompany the man till the borders. Another issue that the man told was about the network in Thailand, where there was a place where arms and ammunition are manufactured, which was independent of Thai rule. Riyaz further told that Rohingya muslims were migrating to Thailand, and that one road from Thailand went over to Malaysia. This route was in the notice of Riyaz since long time. Riyaz was planning to establish someone of the IM in Thailand, and was even thinking of sending Daniyal. He mentioned that there a launch was made which travelled upto 40 kms by remote control for the delivery of weapons. The person met by Riyaz was good at electronics, and wanted to start the work at any cost in Myanmar. Riyaz mentioned that he was behind the Burmese since long time, since several atrocities had been committed on them, He told A-6 that there were several Burmese groups operating in Pakistan. Riyaz told that if arms were received then one task could be done. A-6 asked him whether the task was attack on Bodh Gaya. Riyaz mentioned that there was no benefit of attacking Bodh Gaya immediately, but that he was having long term intentions and that the Buddhists were not worth, and thus preparations were going on. Page as 1277Qaeda and the Taliban of Afghanistan to intensify the war against the Government of India:- investigation has established that the ISI of Pakistan has been providing monetary and infrastructural support to the IM operatives for waging terrorist activities within India. However, it has also emerged that the senior IM operatives including Iqbal Bhatkal, Riyaz Bhatkal, Mirza Shadaab Beg and others are not very happy with the ISI's control on their activities, and want to intensify their jihad or war against India with the assistance of global terrorist organisations like the Al Qaeda and the Taliban. The passion for fighting the NATO forces in A-Pak region by becoming part of Al- Qaeda is also motivating the IM operatives based in Pakistan, who internally want to maintain a distance from the ISI. One IM operative Bada Sajid is leamt to be fighting in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, from the chat. He was also wounded in one of the skirmishes. The conflict and bickering for change in the command of the IM apparent from the analysis of the texts of the recovered chats. It is established from the messages that the absconding accused Riyaz Bhatkal was also badly treated by the ISI officials (whom he refers to as “kutte” in the chat), for trying to establish contact with the Al- Qaeda. Riyaz was stemely warned by the ISI to desist from any attempt to contact Al-Qaeda fighting in the Af-Pak region. It is established from the chats that the absconding accused Riyaz Bhatkal travelled to the tribal belts on the Af-Pak border, for establishing contact with Al-Qaeda. After the meeting which was very fruitful, the Al- Qaeda gave specific tasks to the IM for execution, and also agreed to train their cadres in terrorist activities, Investigation has also Page 89 7277established an apparent rift between two groups of IM operatives, in which one group is led by Sajid Sheikh @ Bada Sajid (aged 27 years, resident of Azamgarh, UP, now in Afghanistan) which includes Afeef, Mirza Sadab Beg, Dr. Shahnawaz @ Doctor (now in Afghanistan and used to visit Karachi), Mohd. Khaleed @ Kodi (resident of Azamgarh and now in Karachi), Abu Rashid @ Danda (resident of Azamgarh and now in Khyber Pakhtun area, Pakistan — along Afghanistan and Pakistan border), Abu Rashid @ Sultan (resident of Azamgarh, and now in Karachi), Sultan @ Mulla (resident of Bhatkal and now in Karachi), Shabbar (his alias name, he is younger brother of Sultan @ Mulla, resident of Bhatkal, now in Karachi, Pakistan), Saleem @ Bigadu Khan (age 34 years, resident of Bhatkal and now in Karachi) while the other is led by Iabal and Riyaz Bhatkal and included the arrested operatives Md. Ahmed (A-6) and Asadullah Akhtar (A-7), absconding accused persons Mohsin Choudhary, Waqas and Tahseen Akhtar @ Monu. The following instances emerged during the analysis of the Chats :~ (i) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 28" November, 2012, Riyaz told A-6 that he had yesterday met a leader of the Taliban, who was praising A-6 and who was one of the most wanted on the list A-6 asked him whether he had met Hakimullah Mehsood, Chief of Tahreek-e-Taliban, Pakistan, which Riyaz denied. Riyaz told ‘A-6 that the person referred above, was once detained by the Whites (i.e. reference to NATO/US Forces), but he had convinced them using the fake identity cards posing as a journalist (ii) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 16" December, 2012, Riyaz told that the conditions of Afghanistan had gone from bad to worse. The leaders of the Al Qaeda were getting killed one by one. Page so 277Even last week, 3-4 members were killed in drone attacks. Riyaz then mentioned about a boy who was in touch with them and who was arrested one month back and had told their names before the agency i.e. ISI. After that senior ISI persons had come to meet them, and cautioned them about their activities since many complaints were being received. ISI officials were complaining that they were planning for training cadres in Afghanistan and doing jihadi activities in Pakistan. Riyaz told A-6 that the ISI (code sunuuu means dog in nawayeti) penetration was very deep in Pakistan, and that there had been a change in ISI leadership. ‘There was a marked change in the attitude of the ISI (ii) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 10" January, 2013, Riyaz shared his glee at the work done by the Students of Pakistan ie. Tehreek-e-Taliban-Pakistan (TTP), During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 26" March, 2013, A-6 told Riyaz that Daniyal (A-7) had shown Vishwaroopam movie yesterday to him, and they discussed that in the beginning and the end the movie talked about about the arrival of Al Qaeda in india, which was going to be true. (v)During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 8" Apr, 2013, Riyaz informed A-6 about the contact in the Taliban who spoke about him had been arrested, and that Mirza Shadaab Beg was in ‘Afghanistan and that the ones arrested were the ones with whom the IM cadres in Pakistan had met. (vi) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 20" Apr, 2013, Riyaz told ‘6 that the ISI had problems with the Taliban (TTP), Page oor 277|(vil) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 11" May, 2013, Riyaz told AG that five blasts were conducted by TTP on that day since moming. Riyaz talked about going on tour to meet Al Qaeda. He mentioned that he couldn't go to the TTP, and that he will join hands with the Al Qaeda, He explained that there were two types of Taliban, one was of Afghanistan and the other of Pakistan. All in Pakistan were supporting the Taliban of Afghanistan. Al Qaeda was also supporting the Taliban — Afghanistan. But the Taliban of Afghanistan talked only about Afghanistan, and not about other places. A-6 asked Riyaz whether he had tried to convince them about the fact that all ‘kufr’ was one; Riyaz said that they knew, but had their priorities fixed on Afghanistan. The Taliban of Afghanistan clearly held that they would not let their land to be used against others. Afghanistani Taliban were close to the ISI, since the ISI had helped them. There were two groups of the Taliban both pro and anti ISI. They further discussed about Faziur Rehman's political party whose persons were in Afghanistan. Riyaz told A-6 that the TTP was very much against kufr, ic. motivated for jihad, but were against the ISI and its agenda. Riyaz told that the TTP had sheltered the Al Qaeda and thus the Al Qaeda was under them, but the TTP persons were Pathans, who are very pure but are less brainy and foolish. Riyaz mentioned that another problem in Pakistan was the Hanafi and Salafi problem. The Deobandi ulema had worked against (code kulfiu) Salafis, and was still working in the same manner. Al Qaeda thus faced this problem. Riyaz had decided not to join hands with the local Al Qaeda members since they were foolish. He mentioned that they would join hands with the Arabs (khaazurr) and remain as a separate group. Poge 2277i) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 11" May, 2013, Riyaz further told that the IM would be under the Al Qaeda. He told that he was going to the area above Waziristan. Ayman al Zawahiri is the senior most in the Al Qaeda, but it was difficult to reach him, however he had briefed everyone. During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 11" May, 2013, Riyaz told that some in the Al Qaeda did not accept Mullah Umar as the amir, since they were salafis, but this was not stated anywhere. This wes mentioned by the ‘Dr. of Al Qaeda’ in Dubai, because of whom Riyaz and Afeef were arrested in Pakistan. Riyaz further stated that still from within the heart, they believed in Mullah Umar as their Amir. This was true about some in the Al Qaeda like those from Yemen, but this was not discussed freely, since it could lead to discord. Seniors of the Al Qaeda themselves mentioned that Mullah Umar was their Amir, hence there was no problem in joining hands with the Al Qaeda (x)During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 11™ May, 2013, they discussed that there is a mention in the Ahl-e-Hadith that the Khalifa (Leffaa) will be from Kuresh tribe Le. Arab (Khazruu is derived from Khajur i.e. date) Thus Riyaz guessed that there would be something which will make the Khazur as Amir. Riyaz further mentioned that 2 persons from Pakistan with them will move towards Syria (Sham in Arabic). The IM operatives Farhan and Sultan also wanted to go to Syria for work. (xi) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 13 May, 2013, Riyaz mentioned that he had to receive a person of the Al Qaeda, Page 93 7277(xii) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 16™ May, 2013, Riyaz explained the modalities of joining hands with the Al Qaeda; one system of working together was of tawun (tawnuu) which was like in Yemen and other places. Jamaat in Yemen was Jamaat al Tauhid or something similar which worked along with the Al Qaeda. The other was of Bayat which is pledge of obedience while tawun means assistance. Regarding future plans of working with the Al Qaeda, Riyaz was planning to adopt the first system of affiliation and then think after the experience of becoming total part of the Al Qaeda. Further, A-6 advised Riyaz to leave the ISI support, and then Riyaz stated that this was the purpose of going to Afghanistan. Riyaz mentioned that Bada Sajid @ Sjjd and Abu Rashid @ Abu Bhai mostly lived in Afghanistan and he had also discussed with them. (vi) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 16" May, 2013, there was a discussion that Good persons meet each other and work together as per one ayat of the Quran. There was a talk of Umar as Khalifa. About probable alliance they discussed that it was said that when the Khalifa in front of anyone then Bayat is the only option, otherwise Tawun is alright. The question in the Muslim world was whether Mullah Umar is the Khalifa. One of the main qualifications for the Khalifa is that the Khalifa should have control ‘over Mecca and Medina, (xiv) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 16" May, 2013, Riyaz told A-6 that there had been a deal between Karzai and America for positioning of 9 permanent US bases in Afghanistan. Page 980277(xv) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 16 May, 2013, Riyaz further mentioned that he had decided that one IM cadre would go every month to Afghanistan by rotation. (xvi) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 18™ May, 2013,Riyaz told ‘A-6 that he wanted him to make passport and to go to Pakistan without the help of the ISI, so that he could take command and work together with the Al Qaeda. (vil) During Chat of A-6 with Afeef on the 22" May 2013, organizational internal ifs were further discussed. Afeef mentioned that Iqbal Bhatkal had asked Shafi (younger brother of Sultan) whether he was ready to go to Syria. Afeef mentioned that he wasn't bothered because of Riyaz’s decision to not send him to Afghanistan, but Farhan, Sultan, Shafi and Salim Ishaqi were also demanding to send them to the battle field in Afghanistan to work with Al-Qaeda. Further he mentioned that he had asked Riyaz to leave the chairman's post and to give opportunity to Sultan so that all the members could get together for work under new commander. Afeef mentioned that Riyaz always used to say that there was some technical problem in sending them to Afghanistan for work with Al-Qaeda. However, Afeef thought that Riyaz was the ‘main reason behind the so called technical problem. A-6 stated that he was afraid about action from the IS! due to their internal disputes, (xviii) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 24" May, 2013, Riyaz mentioned that Daniyal has probably told Mirza Shadab Beg @ engineer, that he had gone to Afghanistan. Then Riyaz described about his journey and that the joumey should have been done much earlier. Riyaz told A-6 about his visit to the Page 95 277Khyber Pakhtoon area where drones were in the air. There he had met a senior of the Al Qaeda who looked after South Asia ic. India, Bangladesh, Burma and Sri Lanka, Maldives, Malaysia and Indonesia, Pakistan was not included in his jurisdiction. Riyaz had requested him to make him meet the main leader / Arab ie. ‘Ayman al Zawihiri, but he told that he was not meeting anyone due to fear of drones. Riyaz had talked to the Al Qaeda operative in Urdu language. He had a discussion about the two modes of working with Al Qaeda ie. Bayat and Tawuun. Riyaz told A-6 that ‘Al Qaeda had several operatives in India. Riyaz mentioned that there was a person in the Al Qaeda of India who looked after UP. A-6 confirmed whether that the person was running a separate module other than the IM, to which Riyaz replied in the positive, Riyaz told that now they were with the Al Qaeda, and that they had also given some work, which he did not disclose fully to A-6 and mentioned that the task of targating jews was the main along with others. The Jews were to be kidnapped and taken to Afghanistani side. (xix) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 24" May, 2013, Riyaz refered to some problems between the Taliban and the Al Qaeda, Which he said would elaborate later. (%%) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 25" May, 2013, A6 requested Riyaz to send Sultan @ Mulla to him in Nepal. Riyaz referred to one year training course of Al Qaeda. Riyaz further ‘mentioned about the activities of Hakimullah Mehsood, leader of the TTP, who he believed was not true hurmut-e-momin since he had shot one person who had differences with him. A-6 told that it was difficult to believe, since such things happen only in films. Page 96277(oxi) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 26" May, 2013 , Riyaz again continued about his visit to Afghanistan and the meeting with the Al Qaeda. He had discussed several things with them. Riyaz then started telling about his journey to Afghanistan and that he was stopped at 8-10 places on the way. He also told not to tell Daniyal about the details. There were check posts of both the army and the police en route. There were some problems enroute. The contact person between Riyaz and Al Qaeda was quite lax in matters of security and also in terms of rabtyy k mamlay. Riyaz told A-6 that he had started from there and reached Peshawar. ‘One friend of Al Qaeda was to come to Peshawar to pick him, and he came late by one and half days. When Riyaz was to reach the city, his three numbers (of contact) got closed. Due to delay Riyaz had to stay in Peshawar, and during the stay some blast took place, and search was starled by the police, which happens generally, so Riyaz had to leave the place. The contact had called Riyaz from neighbouring passenger's phone. Riyaz then told him the address of a masjid and told him that he was there. Then the contact forgot the name of the Masjid. Due to blast the few number of PCO’s enroute had also closed. But then he could meet him who took him to another safe place, and then they left the next morning on the way which went towards Waziristan. Army was positioned all along the way, and there was checking all the way. Riyaz said that he was wearing Shalwaar Kameez and was looking like a Pathan, The contact was from a different place and thus was questioned about his identity card. He got disturbed. Both of them had made separate covers for the journer and pretended to be stranger sitting together, and thus Riyaz was sitting calmly next to him. Though they were sitting together, they Pope 97 277had to show that they were separate and did not know each other. Before leaving the person had told him that there was minimal checking, but there was a lot of checking on the way, due to the altered situation probably. The Hill region started at the border of Waziristan. There was a road there which went upto MS and there was a check post enroute, which they tried to avoid by driving on the barren rocky paths. Then they crossed a river on foot to reach the destination. There he leat that they had a lot of training courses. There was a course for Alims named as Duraa Shariyaa. Riyaz told A-6 that they would be sending their men for training in th courses. Two things that were talked with them were :- 1 That they were very close to each other and friendly, 2. That a lot of training courses were av person who would do their courses would be able to raise a Tehreok. ble. It was discussed that any (xxii) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 26" May, 2013, Riyaz further talked about his stay in Afghanistan. Riyaz told A-6 that they had given him the task of working for Burma, which was very dear to him. The Al Qaeda had asked Riyaz for- 1 Kidnapping of Jews, and, 2. For making network in Burma for commission of terrorist activities there. A-6 asked Riyaz about the status of his earlier connection with Rohingyas (mentioned earlier). Riyaz mentioned that there were more persons that he had found, Further, he mentioned that he had found a group which was working with them i.e. the Al Qaeda. (oxi) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 26" May, 2013, Riyaz further told A-6 that atrocities were being committed in Burma since years and had been in the news only recently. These Page 98 7277days a ban had been imposed even on giving birth to new children. Riyaz told A-6 that a big group of Rohingya Muslims was staying where Riyaz was staying i.e. in Karachi, He was working to motivate them for tasks since long time, but they were not doing anything. Riyaz mentioned that they had also sent lot of funds to the group and had made massive efforts to motivate them for actions against other communities, but they had not done the tasks that they had to do. This Rohingya new group was for years in Afghanistan and consisted on a lot of experts. They had stayed earlier with even Mullah Umar. Amirs of the Taliban had promised them funds, but later refused since there was problem in Afghanistan and they themselves required money. They went to almost every Tanzeem in Pakistan, but no one assisted them. They were already standing ready on one foot. (xiv) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 26" May, 2013, Riyaz further stated that he had mentioned these issues about tasks to be done in Burma before the Al Qaeda, to which they responded and mentioned that something should be done soon and directed Riyaz to finalize talks with the Rohingyas. The Al Qaeda had asked Riyaz to finalise modalities with the Rohingyas, ‘A person would be sent from Upar i.e. Afghanistan to guide the Rohingyas. Riyaz said that he then met with the Rohingyas and they would now decide on the proposal discussed with Riyaz and inform. Riyaz further stated that he wanted to work in this field for years since a lot of atrocities had been committed. The Rohingyas were very poor and did not have enough to eat even. However, Manmohan Singh had given money to Myanmar for creating such situations. Riyaz told A-6 that the Indian aid to Myanmar was about 400 mn, and that India was fully involved in the happenings Page 99277in Myanmar. He also told A-6 that none knew about his contacts with the Rohingyas except for A-6 as even Iqbal didn't know. (xxv) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 26" May, 2013 , Riyaz discussed about the risks of the proposal for their training. A-6 told that Riyaz must have seen the new Al Farooq i.e. reference to the camp where the 9/11 Hijackers were trained. (xvi) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 26" May, 2013, Riyaz said that there was no use in informing others, since they did not understand how to work on a need-to-know basis. A:6 told him that he knew the issues on which the discussion had taken place in the group and that the others were angry since Riyaz had not taken Mulla on the journey. Riyaz mentioned that he was going for the first time and had no ideas about the levels of difficulties to be encountered enroute. He said that others would have understood the difficulty, had he taken them along and that when they would go then they would understand as to how difficult it was. Riyaz told A-6 that the issues of the Al Qaeda were stricter than their organisation i.e IM. A-6 asked Riyaz as to whether he should talk to Afeef and others, and Riyaz said that only A-6 could talk clearly. For the time being it was proper that Moulana @ sultan should be sent to A-6, and then he could be recalled after some change of mind and sent to Afghanistan for training (xvii) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 29" May, 2013, Riyaz said that the persons of the other group doubted that he had actually visited Afghanistan to meet the Al Qaeda. Riyaz had gone by flight to Peshawar, and had the retum tickets with him, which Page 1000277he had shown to others for proving his visit which was being doubted by others. (exw) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 29" June, 2013, Riyaz mentioned that he had taken time of 8-12 months to formally join the Al Qaeda, since he had a lot of work to be done. (xix) During Chat of A-6 with Riyaz on the 5” July, 2013, A-6 asked Riyaz to prepare for missile attacks. Riyaz informed that they were being made and work was continuously going on them in Afghanistan, Several projects were going on in Afghanistan. It iyaz_further mentioned that one person who was with the Taliban worked for the ISI. Riyaz told A-6 not to trust anyone except the Al Qaeda. He further mentioned that the TTP also related themselves to the Al Qaeda, but the system of the Al Qaeda was very different. Riyaz further mentioned that he was planning to send more persons to ‘Afghanistan by the Iran route. Shekhu would go after 2 days to ‘Aighainistan. Riyaz mentioned that he wanted that he should seemed that angels resided in Afghanistan. receive shahadat by Drone attack; he mentioned that three four drones were moving in the area above, when he was in that area. He further mentioned that a friend had said that the drones could be hacked and brought down and that two were brought down by Iran. The drones had eaten up the Al Qaeda. The last time the person who was killed was the biggest supporter of the Taliban in the Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda were staying there only because of the Taliban. 1799 Efforts to estat terrorist organisations like the Al Qaeda and the Taliban by the accused Asadullah Akhtar @ Haddi :- The following instances h_contact with other international Page 01277‘emerged from the analysis of the recovered chat messages :- a. During the chat between A-7 and Mirza Shadaab Beg on 25" May, 2013, Mirza Shadab Beg asked A-7 whether he could procure explosives from Bangladesh, and indicated about the presence of a group of Al-Qaeda comprising of Rohingya Mu: Bangladesh and further told him about the plan to work in Myanmar, sat b. During the chat between A-7 and Mirza Shadaab Beg on 1" June, 2013, they discussed about the training provided by the Taliban and that the Taliban paid for training the boys with them, Shadab Beg told A-7 that for recruiting boys Talibanis had paid him. Actually he was planning to send Sajid for training and had talked to both the ‘Al Qaeda as well as the Taliban. Initially the Taliban had asked him to wait due to the impending elections in Pakistan, and thus Sajid had proceeded for getting trained with the Al Qaeda. Now, the Taliban had started calling for the training and had also paid money from their account, As chkn @ Bada Sajid had already left for getting trained with the Al Qaeda and could not be given to tech @ Taliban, Shadab Beg was quite perplexed as he had already received money. Shadab Beg told A-7 that chkn was waiting at a distance of 5 hours from him. A-7 advised him to send dandaa or khbb to tech or to go himself for the training. A-7 advised him to return the payment made by tech and he told that he would call back chkn @ Bada Sajid and would then send him with tech. . During the chat between A-7 and Mirza Shadaab Beg on 12” June, 2013, it was revealed that chkkn (Bada Sajid) had not returned and that reaching him there was a difficult task, Mirza Shadab Beg Poge 021277