Mumbai: In a major development in the case of recent city terror conspiracy, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism squad (ATS) said on Tuesday the address of the internet protocol device used to make calls by foreign handling was accused of being captured to show its location in Pakistan.
Foreign handler, Anthony aka Anas aka Anwar alias Annu, has used a Malaysian SIM card, UAE and Russia to communicate with the defendant.
Rizwan Momin lives here at the Mumbra hiring “One of the defendants who was arrested communicated with his handler through internet calls.
Although the number is not the Pakistani number, the IP address shows its location in Pakistan,” said Vineet Agarwal, the Head of ATS and DGP additional.
Mateen Hafafez report.
The ‘Anthony’ handler is probably the brother of the Gangster Gangster-Squad Anti-Terrorism Maharashtra (ATS) has claimed that communication between a suspect who was held at the National Terror conspiracy recently showed that even though telephone numbers were not Pakistan, the IP address of the device showed a handler located in Pakistan.
ATS has registered a case under strict preventive activity law on September 17.
The suspects were ordered for a criminal conspiracy to carry out terrorist acts, the destruction of evidence and hid a terrorist.
Sumber ATS said the handler, Anthony, was alleged to be a brother of a fugitive gangster.
State police have so far arrested three people; Zakir Shaikh Automatic Driver (52), Rizwan Momin School Teacher (40) and Irfan Shaikh (50), tailor.
They are currently in ATS custody.
The police said the driver of the Shaikh car was associated with Anthony and had saved the number with a different name.
“The document recovered during the search has detailed budget allotment to execute terror conspiracy,” said an officer.
“Shaikh had asked Irfan to receive Rs 50,000 from a financial service company.
Irfan received the money, giving Rs 1,000 to Shaikh and asked to save Rs 49,000 with him.
We have recovered money from Irfan.
Moreover Shaikh has booked a ticket to go to Lucknow.
He Want to visit Kanpur too and we interrogated him about the purpose of his visit, “said an officer.
Shaikh could not take a train since ATS caught him from Irfan’s house before he could go to the train station.
The police also called the carrier of the financial services company office through which money was sent.
“They will help us with detail about financial transactions,” said an officer.
RS 50,000 was transferred through a company based in the US ‘to avoid suspicion’, added the police.
The police claimed Shaikh had given his cellphone to Momin and asked him to destroy it.
Momin solved it into three parts and threw it to Nolah at Mumbra near his residence.
The police recovered the cellphone and sent it for cyber analysis.
“While looking for a college class Momin in Bandra, we have recovered five SIM cards.
We investigate it,” said an officer.