Bhubaneswar, Feb 20: Police Friday took two of the five SIMI activists, nabbed at Rourkela, to Nanga Mohalla in Bhadrak District where they had stayed for over eight months before moving to Rourkela.
Special DGP Crime Branch Bijay Kumar Sharma, IG Arun Bothra and the Special Task Force (STF) took the accused under tight security to unearth more facts about their links in the area.
The five hardcore terrorists who were nabbed by a joint police operation of Rourkela police, IB, Telangana police, SOG, at Nala Road under Rourkela police station on Tuesday night, had rented a house at Bhadrak’s Nanga Mohalla.
SIMI literature, mobile phone an d some cash were recovered by the team from the Bhadrak house of the operatives.
A three-member team of the Madhya Pradesh Police also arrived at Nangamahal in Bhadrak.
The SIMI suspects, including a woman, had stayed in the house posing as carpenters, sources in State police said.
Sources said after the photos of the arrested persons were flashed on TV and published in newspapers, a local resident of Bhadrak town, told the local police that they had stayed at his house on rent for six months till November, 2015. In November, 2015, the five suddenly left the place after locking the room.
The souces said, these SIMI activists also lived in Sunapalli under Dhanupalli Police Station in Sambalpur in 2013 before moving to Bhadrak and Rourkela.
They had rented a house posing as shawl, bed sheet sellers before Special Task Force and ATS (Anti Terror Squad) raided the house on January 8, 2014, sources added.
