For the outlawed Students Islamic Movement of India, the training camp at Kalaghatgi forest area in Dharwad, Karnataka, was considered to be the most successful one.
So impressed was the SIMI top rung with this training camp, that it proposed to set up a similar one in Andhra Pradesh too.
According to the confessions made by Jaber, son of Moulana Nasirrudin, an accused in the Haren Pandya murder case, Safdar Nagori, the chief of the banned outfit had visited Hyderabad to zero down on a location to set up a terror training camp.
Jaber who is in police custody reportedly told the cops that SIMI had identified a place in the Anantgiri forests in Andhra Pradesh.
Jaber told the police that Nagori had visited Hyderabad in the early part of 2007 and had held discussions with various persons regarding the setting up of a forest camp.
Jaber also said, during his interrogation, that SIMI had planned on inducting youths from the rural areas in Andhra Pradesh and training them in these forest camps. The camp was being set up to carry out sabotage activities, according to Jaber.
The other accused in the case include Abu Basher, alleged mastermind of Ahmedabad blasts, another top SIMI functionary Qamaruddin Nagori, Muqeemuddin Yasir and Raziuddin Nasir -- sons of Moulana Naseeruddin, a city resident accused in the assassination of former Gujarat home minister Haren Pandya, and Motasim Billah, he said.
According to investigating agencies, Jaber had also named Abdul Basher, Abdus Subhan, Riazuddin Nasir, Adnan and Karmruddin Nagori as the men who played a key role in the implementation of this plan.
The Hyderabad police have now booked a case of criminal conspiracy against all the persons named by Jaber.
The Hyderabad police say that SIMI wanted both Riazuddin Nasir and Adnan, both of whom were arrested by the Karnataka police to play a major role in the training camps.
Both Nasir and Adnan had played an important role in setting up the training camps in the forests of Karnataka before they were arrested. The police, following the arrest of the duo, had said that it was in these forest camps that training was imparted to several youths.
