Andhra Pradesh

Police grill Bangladeshi man

HYDERABAD: The police took into custody a person, who resembled the suspect in the Saturday twin blasts, in old city on Thursday.

Sources said the man was in his mid-20s and believed to be a Bangladeshi. He was spotted by sleuths while he was moving suspiciously near Charminar.

However, going by the preliminary questioning of the person in custody, he might not be involved in the twin blasts, it was indicated.

“But the fact is that he hails from Bangladesh and most of the active terrorist modules are linked to that country. We are thoroughly questioning him,” an investigator said.

Within hours of releasing the suspect’s computer-generated sketch, Hyderabad police have been receiving several calls about persons with facial features akin to the suspect in the sketch.

Police officials say that the strategy of the terrorists to frequently change names of their operatives for different operations had become a stumbling block for them in tracking down the culprits.

A person working for a terrorist outfit might perform different ‘tasks’ assigned to him.

The ‘assignments’ could be carrying a bag from one place to another without the person knowing whether the bag contained explosives or was meant for just providing shelter to another operative.

The same person could use different names while carrying out different tasks.

The city police are banking on the interrogation report of Sattar, member of a terrorist outfit, nabbed while he was crossing over to India from Bangladesh recently.

During a narco-analysis test conducted on him, Sattar disclosed the names of some persons to whom his ‘handlers’ abroad had supplied high explosives.

“Through Sattar, we got some definite clues. But the terrorists’ strategy of changing names for different works is making it difficult for us to zero in on them,” a top police officer said.

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