Agencies
Indore, April 2:
Three more activists, including a trainer, of banned Students Islamic Movements of India were arrested by the Madhya Pradesh police today.
"The trio identified as Amaan, Zakir Lala and Irfan Chhipa, were arrested from different places this morning," Superintendent of Police (Indore) Anshuman Singh Yadav told media persons here, adding that they belong to Nihalpura and Juna Risala areas of the city.
Yadav said Amaan was engaged in training SIMI activists, while Zakir had been the local chief of the banned outfit.
Chhipa was held for helping SIMI and carrying out other illegal activities. Earlier, he was arrested in 2006 on the same grounds, he said.
During interrogation all the three confessed to have been working to strengthen the organisation at the behest of top SIMI leaders, he said.
More arrests were possible in the coming days in the wake of revelations made by the arrested activists, Yadav added.
Meanwhile, police have filed cases against them for involvement in illegal activities and for helping anti- national elements.
With today's arrest, 24 SIMI activists have been held within a week.
For the first time on March 27, police had arrested 13 SIMI activists, including its Madhya Pradesh Chief Safdar Nagori, who have been remanded to police custody till April 11.
Following this operation, seven more were arrested on March 31 and one was held yesterday.
Suspects involvement of women
With the arrest of top leaders of banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), the law enforcement Agencies
have now set their eyes on its women's wing 'Shaheen Force', a top police source said on Wednesday. Shaheen Force came into light after the recent arrest of five SIMI workers from Unhel town in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain district. Police has suspected the involvement of four women of the banned outfit in the activities of SIMI, but denied that any arrests have been made so far in this regard. The activists of the Shaheen Force spread the outfit's ideology among the women living in the backward areas in the cities and later enrolled them as outfit members, the sources said. "There was nothing new in women joining the SIMI till the organisation was banned in 2001. However later it was effectively checked," sources added. Reports also suggested that the house in Shyam Nagar area where SIMI activists were holed up for a meeting was taken by its head Safdar Hussein Nagori with the help of a woman activist.
Delhi Police to seek custody of Nagori
New Delhi: Keen to know SIMI network in the capital, Delhi Police will seek the custody of a top leader of the outlawed Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), who was arrested in Indore a week ago, in connection with a 2001 case of inciting Muslims against the government. The Special Cell of Delhi Police will move the Indore court in a fortnight's time seeking the custody of SIMI general secretary Safdar Nagori, who escaped from Delhi Police net seven years ago during a crackdown. "We have decided to seek the custody of Nagori and will move an application in a Indore court very soon," Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Karnal Singh told news Agencies .
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