Maqbool questions leaves cops' dumb
HYDERABAD: 'Aur kya bolu...jitna bolna tha pehle bol diya na....' These words from Sayed Maqbool, the alleged terror operative of Indian Mujahideen (IM), only indicate that he is unlikely to come out with the information the investigators are seeking from him desperately.
Even as Hyderabadis are fuming at the AP police for their failure to prevent the terror strike, Maqbool, the man at the centre of the investigation, too appears to be in the mood to take a dig at the police machinery.
Two days after the twin bomb blasts rocked Hyderabad on February 21, a team from the special cell of Delhi police questioned Maqbool in Tihar jail to know more about the blasts and about his associates in Hyderabad.
Though it was supposed to be a questioning by the police, it was Maqbool who questioned the police for their failure!
'Main aap logon ko last time (after his arrest in October last year) bola ki mai aur Imran mil ke Dilsukhnagar aur doosre areas ka recce kiye bol ke. Uske baad, kya karey aap logan? Kuch nahi kare....Blast ho gaya Hyderabad mein, ab aake mere ku pooche toh, main kya bolu?' was the sarcastic remark made by Maqbool, sources quoting him said.
The special cell sleuths were, of course, embarrassed.
Giving a stern look from his bearded face, Maqbool, who was arrested last year from Hyderabad in connection with the Delhi bomb blast, further said: 'Mera kaam toh wahin khatam ho gaya... reccee kar ke.... Phir aap logan kya action liye?'
Cutting him short, the sleuths asked him about his associates in Hyderabad, to which Maqbool reportedly replied that he had nothing new to tell them. 'Arrest ke baad, sab bol diya main... ab aur kuch nahin hai bolne ku. Kisse dosti thi, kisse mila, kya kara, sab toh bol diya na saab? Mere ku nai malum kaun kiye (Hyderabad blasts). Isse zaada, mere ku kuch nahi maloom,' Maqbool said.
Sources, however, insist that Maqbool knows a lot more, but was not revealing. The special cell, which could not get any information from Maqbool, is now waiting to see what the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which filed a petition seeking Maqbool's custody on Tuesday, will get out of him.
Sources said most of Maqbool's associates, particularly in Dharmabad and Nanded areas, whose names he has already given out, are already in jails.
The NIA, it is learnt, is getting ready with the questions they will pose to Maqbool, which range from his political affiliations to his associates in Hyderabad and Nanded, and importantly who could have planted the bombs at Dilsukhnagar.
'It is a fact that Maqbool embarrassed the special cell by asking counter questions and passing remarks. This does not mean we give up. We will try to lay our hands on whatever we can,' sources in the NIA said.
At the moment, the agency is busy going through hundreds of interrogation reports of the accused arrested in terror cases and trying to piece together bits of information.
News Posted: 28 February, 2013
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