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TELANGANA POLICE VISIT BALANGIR AGAIN FOR PROBE
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A police team from
Telangana arrived in Balangir district again on Saturday to conduct a
reinvestigation into the suspected Odisha links of the banned terrorist outfit
Students Islamic Movement in India (SIMI). According to reports, the team went
to some places at Titilagarh and Saintala and interrogated some youths in this
connection. Besides, it also picked an unidentified youth from the Titilagarh
railway station with the help of local police for interrogation.
The Tikrapada police have
detained some local youths. Balangir SP Dipak Kumar said the Telangana police
team has not registered any case so far. However, the Telangana police suspect
that the SIMI outfit is active in some parts of western Odisha. It may be noted
that the Telangana police had earlier come to Balangir district on April 3. The
team, before winding up its tour on April 7, had taken a youth of a village
under Tikrapada police station for interrogation.
According to police, the
youth was arrested for stealing a mobile phone from a passenger in a running
train and later sold it to a person of a nearby village. The Telangana police,
in course of investigation, later found that the youth had links with SIMI
members who were involved in the dacoity in Dhanbad-Alleppey Express train near
the Kesinga railway station on February 15 this year. The links of the banned
outfit in Odisha had come to the fore after two SIMI members were killed in an
encounter with the Telangana police at Janakipuram in Nalgonda district on
April 4.
During investigation,
Telangana police found that the two slain SIMI activists, Mohammad Aji-ud-Din
and Mohammad Aslam alias Bilall, of Madhya Pradesh were involved in a number of
criminal activities in Odisha, the two most notable were being the loot of Rs
1.25 lakh from the Jharsuguda Gramya Bank on December 13, 2013 and the
Dhanbad-Alleppey Express train loots. The Telangana police team had come to
Balangir after seizing some documents from the two slain SIMI activists.
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