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Yasin Bhatkal, founder of Indian Mujahideen, arrested
Yasin Bhatkal, the Indian Mujahideen mastermind and a key suspect in several terror blasts since 2008, has been arrested in a joint operation by the central intelligence agencies and the Bihar Police.
“Yasin Bhatkal has been traced and detained at the India-Nepal border in Bihar. He is presently in the custody of Bihar Police. His interrogation is going on,” Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde told newspersons here on Thursday morning.
The Bihar Police are interrogating Yasin Bhatkal and will later produce him in a court for transit remand.
The arrest of Yasin alias Ahmed Siddibappa alias Shahrukh is being seen as a major breakthrough in the agencies’ protracted efforts to break the back of the Indian Mujahideen, the Lashker-e-Taiba-backed indigenous jihadi outfit behind the Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Pune and Jaipur blasts.
“This is the biggest success after the Batla House operation, following which the IM was forced to slow down its activities,” said an intelligence official.
Yasin Bhatkal, along with Riyaz Bhatkal, is a co-founder of the IM. Both hail from Bhatkal village in Karnataka.
Yasin carried a Rs 10 lakh National Investigation Agency (NIA) reward on his head. Another IM operative, AsadullahAkhtar alias Haddi, is reported to have been detained along with him. Bhatkal’s arrest comes close on the heels of key LeT man Abdul KarimTunda’s deportation from Nepal.
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