Focus on LeT in Hyderabad blast

Investigation into the Mecca Masjid blast brought the focus on Lashkar-e-Toiba-trained Sheikh Naeem, currently in judicial custody in Maharashtra who, during narco-analysis tests...

Investigation into the Mecca Masjid blast brought the focus on Lashkar-e-Toiba-trained Sheikh Naeem, currently in judicial custody in Maharashtra who, during narco-analysis tests, revealed the name of Shoaib Jagirdar and claimed that two more operatives, trained in explosives, had been sent to

Hyderabad.

Jagirdar is now being interrogated by the Hyderabad police on charges that he supplied the explosives for the blast that left 11 people dead and a score injured.

Official sources have told The Sunday Express that Naeem was picked up along with two Pakistanis and a Kashmiri by a Border Security Force patrol on the India-Bangladesh border in February. Interrogations revealed that Anantnag resident Muzaffar Ahmed was bringing the two Lashkar-trained Pakistanis, Mohammed Yunus and Abdullah, to the Valley while Naeem, an Aurangabad resident, was coming back after training from Pakistan.

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The Maharashtra police later questioned Naeem on the Mumbai train blasts and booked him in the Aurangabad arms haul case.

During the narco-analysis test, Naeem is said to have disclosed that he had two trained operatives in Hyderabad and named Jagirdar as one of his accomplices. The latter has operated in Hyderabad, Jalna, Aurangabad and Nanded districts of Maharashtra.