The Nalgonda police launched a massive search operations in Nalgonda district amid reports of the possible presence of more terror suspects in the area on Sunday, a day after two men and a policeman were killed in a fierce gunfight.
Police teams have kept an eye on Arvapally and surrounding areas for operatives of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), after the Madhya Pradesh Anti-Terrorists Squad (ATS) confirmed that the two persons killed in Saturday’s shoot-out were indeed SIMI activists who escaped from MP’s Khandwa jail in 2013.
Meanwhile, National Investigation Agency (NIA) teams too joined the hands in the search operations. In all, 18 special teams have fanned out in different directions in search of other SIMI activists who have reportedly gone missing from the district.
The 24-year SIMI activist Mohammad Aslam studied till Class VIII and worked as a mason till his arrest in June 2011, along with the eight other SIMI activists. His father, Ayub, worked as a labourer and later as a driver to take care of his family of six. The family continues to live in Ganesh Talai in a two-room house. Aslam’s brother, Ashfaq, was also arrested by the police earlier and is currently out on bail.
The other Mohammad Aizazuddin Twenty-seven-year old grew up in a Muslim-dominated locality in Kareli, 100 km from Jabalpur, among eight siblings.
According to Madhya Pradesh ATS, Aslam reportedly told that he began working for SIMI in 2005.