Intelligence Bureau sleuths have gone to Mumbai, Jaipur, Hyderabad and Bengaluru to track down hideouts of the Harkat-ulJihad-al-Islami (HuJI) and the Students’ Islamic Movement of India (Simi).
Intelligence sources say there could be different reasons for such targeting. In Gujarat it could be due to communal riots, in Madhya Pradesh due to the crackdown on Simi, particularly after the Jaipur blasts. The MP police had arrested top Simi leader Safdar Nagori and 10 of his men after the Jaipur attack.
In MP, steps are being taken to strengthen security in Bhopal, Indore and Ujjain, while a close watch is being kept on BJP-ruled Himachal Pradesh. Simi is learnt to have shifted its base to Karnataka following the MP crackdown, and later it again relocated to Karaikal (Puducherry) and Goa, official sources said.
The matter was discussed at a high-level meeting chaired by Union minister of state for home Sriprakash Jaiswal in Puducherry earlier this month, which was attended by the lieutenant-governor, the chief minister, chief secretary and DGP.
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