IM’s key operative gets 7-day NIA custody

A special court on Friday sent alleged Indian Mujahideen key operative Abdul Wahid Siddibapa to NIA custody for seven days after the agency said he was required to be interrogated in connection with fund transfer to the terror outfit. 32-year-old Siddibapa, a resident of Bhatkal in Karnataka, was produced before Special NIA judge Rakesh Pandit, who said: “It is appropriate to say that custodial interrogation is required. I grant his custody to NIA for seven days.” In the application, the NIA sought 15-days custody of Siddibapa, submitting that he was in Dubai and had assumed the name of Khan and he was an important cadre of IM organisation for regularly transferring funds from Pakistan to UAE and then to India for terror activities.