Pak terrorist killed
Police on Tuesday killed a suspected Pakistani terrorist Mohammad Ali in an early morning shootout at central Mumbai’s Antop Hill area while he was trying to get in touch with a terror module here.
By Agencies |
MUMBAI: Police on Tuesday killed a suspected Pakistani terrorist Mohammad Ali in an early morning shootout at central Mumbai’s Antop Hill area while he was trying to get in touch with a terror module here.
A joint team of the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Mumbai Police had arrested one Mohammad Riyaz Nawabuddin on Monday night. On a tip-off from him that his colleague was hiding at the Central Government Scheme (CGS) colony in Antop Hill, police searched the area.
The shootout took place around 4.30 am when the suspected terrorist opened fire. The ATS team fired in retaliation in which Ali alias Abu Osama was killed. “We had specific intelligence inputs that several members of terror outfits from Pakistan and Bangladesh are trying to enter Mumbai and its adjoining areas to carry out subversive activities,” Mumbai police commissioner A K Roy told reporters here on Tuesday.
“We also had information that a group of suicide bombers or fighters had entered India through Bangladesh, following the arrest of two Pakistan nationals in West Bengal last week,” he said.
“Following these inputs, the ATS carried out raids at Vadala check point at midnight on Monday and intercepted a Maruti car with Gujarat registration plates and arrested a 21 year-old Pakistani youth. A sophisticated ‘star’ pistol with five rounds of live cartridge, five detonators and 1.5 kg of a white explosive powder were seized from him.”
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“The ATS team also recovered two extra registration plates from the car along with $50 and Rs 1,400 in cash. On interrogation, the youth, who identified himself as Mohammed Riyaz Nawabuddin, revealed that he was a resident of village 4WB, under Matishwala police station, in Pakistan’s Behadi district,” Roy said.“Riyaz revealed that he had entered India with Ali and stayed at a town in a north Indian state for several months on assumed Hindu names.”
“The duo had arrived in Mumbai only a couple of days back and were trying to get in touch with a local terror module and had taken shelter at an abandoned and partly dilapidated government colony building at Antop Hill area in central Mumbai,” the police commissioner said.
“When the ATS team reached the abandoned room on the third floor of the building, the suspected terrorist opened fire. We fired in retaliation and he was killed after a brief shootout.”
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“Besides some ammunition, we also recovered a world map, maps of Maharashtra and Bangladesh and a red dairy containing mostly telephone numbers of Bangladesh,” Roy added. Ali was a resident of Charchak in Faisalabad, the police commissioner said. Asked about the possible targets, Roy said that it was too premature to assume anything specific at the moment.
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Riyaz will be produced in court later on Tuesday. “We are not claiming that the duo were connected with the July 11 terror blasts, but the fact that they had come with an intent is certain. We can only give more details after we interrogate Riyaz,” he said. The city is already on high alert ahead of the Ganpati festival post July 11 train blasts. Download
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