HYDERABAD: With no breakthrough so far in Dilsukhnagar serial blasts that claimed 17 lives and left nearly 150 injured, the investigating agencies are scanning the activities of Dursgah-e-Jihad-o-Shahadat (DJS), a city-based outfit whose members were alleged to have been involved in a series of terror attacks in the past.
"DJS has been a training ground for militants in the past. Many of them had developed links with foreign intelligence agencies and terrorist organisations and carried out attacks in Hyderabad and elsewhere. It is critical to know the status of these members in the context of the latest blasts," a police officer said on condition of anonymity.
Local police sources said the outfit lost its sheen after the death of its founder Shaikh Mahboob Ali in 2011. The new DJS president Mohammed Abdul Majid, son-in-law of the founder, staged a protest on December 6, the anniversary of Babri Masjid demolition. He also organised protests against a police officer in October for which he was behind bars for over two weeks.
Police sources said IM operative Syed Maqbool, who was arrested by the Delhi police in October last year for planning terror attacks across the country, was once linked to DJS. Mohammed Abdul Shahid Bilal and his brother Samad, who were first linked with Mecca Masjid bomb blast and later killed in Karachi, were also DJS members. Mohammed Viquar, who reportedly killed two policemen in 2009 and 2010 had his initial training with DJS. Another militant Ghulam Yazdani, who was killed in a police encounter in Delhi, also owed allegiance to the outfit.
The founder's grandson Nijihullah was packed off to Saudi Arabia to escape police, but later fell into the hands of Pakistani terror handlers. He was reportedly trained in Pakistan and later pushed back into India. His present whereabouts are not known.
Denying any role in terror activities, DJS President Abdul Majid had earlier claimed that the outfit had trained about 50,000 youths in self-defence in the past. The two camps of DJS where "self-defence training" was imparted—Ujale Shah Eidgah grounds and Purani Haveli—are now defunct.
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