HYDERABAD: Officials of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday grilled Indian Mujahideen (IM) suspects Syed Maqbool and Imran Khan about the 12 persons from Hyderabad whom the two met during their stay in Tihar Jail.
Arrested by the Delhi police for their alleged involvement in the Pune bomb blasts in October last year and lodged in Tihar Jail, Maqbool and Imran were brought to Hyderabad on Friday to be questioned over their possible role in the Dilsukhnagar twin bomb blasts of February 21. Both the NIA as well as Hyderabad police teams investigating the blasts are pointing to the involvement of the local modules of the IM in the blasts and believe that local IM modules carried out the blasts.
According to sources, the NIA team grilled the two IM suspects about the identity and background of the 12 persons who had visited the duo in Tihar Jail. Maqbool and Imran had earlier confessed that they had conducted a recce at Dilsukhnagar, Begum Bazaar and Abids to zero in on possible spots for carrying out the bomb blasts. The NIA officials quizzed the duo as to whether the youths from Hdyerabad who had visited them in jail were given any instructions by them to carry out or help execute the blasts, said sources.
The NIA team also took Imran to an undisclosed location on Saturday morning before returning to the agency's Begumpet office. On Friday night, the NIA officials wanted to take Maqbool and Imran to some locations, but decided against it after seeing media teams parked outside the Begumpet office, the sources said.
The NIA investigators are questioning the duo to know more about the Bhatkal brothers, especially Yasin, and their modules, which were behind the Dilsukhnagar twin blasts. Both Maqbool and Yasin were grilled separately by two teams all through the day.
Meanwhile, the city police officials were still unable to come up with sketches of the blast suspects as the witnesses were not able to provide them with proper identification. "The facial features of the suspects as being described by the witnesses are contradicting one another," said an official.
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