Claiming that there was ?credible? information about the involvement of Kafeel Ahmed in the foiled UK terror bids, the Karnataka home minister, MP Prakash, said the Indian terror suspects were ?more dangerous than rogues on street?.
In an interview to a TV channel Prakash said, ?Whatever information we have got, whatever the results our interrogation gave, there seems to be a very conclusive evidence about Kafeel?s role in the foiled plot.?
?I have credible information (about Kafeel?s involvement)…whatever information that government of England has sent, they have sent it to Central government. Generally, they deal nation-to-nation,? he said, adding the state police was in touch with central intelligence agencies.
Kafeel is undergoing treatment in a hospital in the UK after he suffered serious burn injuries in the abortive Glasgow airport vterror strike.
About Mohammed Haneef, Kafeel?s cousin and the Indian doctor detained in Australia, Prakash said the Indian doctor was a ?misguided youth who had the bent of mind to plan it that way.
?Haneef?s presence as such at the place where the blast had taken place is not yet established. However, his antecedents have been checked,? he said.
?Apparently these people are very sober, very intelligent and courteous. People will not suspect that they harbour such views. They are more dangerous than rogues on the street,? he added.
He said, he could not reveal details about the investigations conducted by the Karnataka Police because there were some ?procedural? proprieties involved and also because whatever information they received from London were routed through the Union government.
Meanwhile, a top Karnataka police official claimed that the jehadi propaganda CD had been in private circulation in Bangalore for the last one year. The police have recently seized a set of such CDs.
?We had information that compact disks running down the West and highlighting the role of the West in the Iraq war have been in circulation for the past one year,? a senior intelligence official informed PTI.
?We have been on the look out for such kind of material. No seizures of such material had been made before the unearthing of the UK terror plot,? he said.
Asked why no steps had been taken despite such information being available with the police, he said no action had been taken because these disks were restricted to private circulation and had not come into the public domain as yet.
Such disks, comprising speeches by Islamic leaders exhorting people to wage a
jehad, were in circulation not only in Bangalore, but in other parts of India as well. The origin of the production of such disks was not currently known, he said.
The CDs contain pure religious discourses or comments on the religion, some exhort people to jehad and still others have Iraq war related content, he added. On police seizing the disks from Kafeel?s house, the minister said, ?police will verify whether the disks contain any objectionable material or provocative statements or if they had violated any Indian laws. Depending on the situation, police would decide the next course of action,? Prakash said.
