Andhra Pradesh government today revoked the remission granted to Indian Mujahideen (IM) activist Syed Maqbool, who reportedly reckied for planting bomb blasts in Hyderabad city.
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has approved the file cancelling the ‘remission’ granted to Maqbool and sent it to Governor ESL Narasimhan for approval, sources said.
According to the sources, Maqhool, a former member of the Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen, was convicted of murdering one Krishnamurthy in Nizamabad district in 1999 and sentenced to life imprisonment in October 2004. But following a grant of remission by then YSR government in 2009, he walked free.
He then became a member of a MIM unit in Nanded, Maharashtra, but expelled in 2012 for ‘non-performance’ or failure to increase membership.
Delhi Police, in a statement last year, stated that Maqbool, originally from Shaheen Nagar in Old City here, had revealed in August last year during interrogation that IM activists had reconnoitered Dilsukhnagar, Abids and Begum Bazaar for planting a bomb, the sources said.
In view of the serious nature of criminal offence committed by Maqbool after his release from prison, the Andhra Pradesh government decided for cancellation of remission granted to him.
Maqbool will serve the remaining period of sentence in the cases in which he was earlier convicted, the sources added.