‘Yasin’s arrest major blow to terror cells’
31 Aug 2013 4:36 AM IST
Yasin Bhatkal is one the ‘most potent’ terrorists in the Indian Mujahideen (IM) stable and nabbing him is a ‘great success’, former home secretary R K Singh said on Thursday after his arrest from the Indo-Nepal border.
‘This fellow has been the most active terrorist in the IM group. He himself was a bomb planter, organiser and he was infact one of the most potent terrorists in that (IM) stable,’ Singh, who was till recently a top officer in the country’s internal security set-up,’ Singh said.
‘We have been after him. Catching him, therefore, I think, is a great success,’ he said.
Singh said Bhatkal’s name had also cropped up in the interrogation reports of the Mumbai train blasts and his role in that case had to be examined ‘very closely’.
The former home secretary said Bhatkal gave the agencies slip at least twice earlier.
‘Once it was said he was arrested in Kolkata but they (security agencies) did not have his identity and he managed to get bail and on another occasion again, our agencies had worked out a plan but he managed to give a slip,’ he said.
Singh said Bhatkal also uses an alias of Imran and that the establishment of the Indian Mujahideen outfit is based in Pakistan.
‘This fellow has been the most active terrorist in the IM group. He himself was a bomb planter, organiser and he was infact one of the most potent terrorists in that (IM) stable,’ Singh, who was till recently a top officer in the country’s internal security set-up,’ Singh said.
‘We have been after him. Catching him, therefore, I think, is a great success,’ he said.
Singh said Bhatkal’s name had also cropped up in the interrogation reports of the Mumbai train blasts and his role in that case had to be examined ‘very closely’.
The former home secretary said Bhatkal gave the agencies slip at least twice earlier.
‘Once it was said he was arrested in Kolkata but they (security agencies) did not have his identity and he managed to get bail and on another occasion again, our agencies had worked out a plan but he managed to give a slip,’ he said.
Singh said Bhatkal also uses an alias of Imran and that the establishment of the Indian Mujahideen outfit is based in Pakistan.
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