Police to seek custody of top SIMI man

The Delhi Police’s Special cell will seek custody of the July 26 Ahmedabad blasts suspect, 32-year-old Qayamuddin Kapadia aka Ashfaque, to probe his links with the Delhi blasts, reports Abhishek Sharan.

The Delhi Police’s Special cell will seek custody of the July 26 Ahmedabad blasts suspect, 32-year-old Qayamuddin Kapadia aka Ashfaque, to probe his links with the Delhi blasts.

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Kapadia is a top operative of the pro-jihad faction of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and is in the custody of Madhya Pradesh police.

Kapadia was suspected to have assisted Indian Mujahideen’s alleged operations chief Atif Ameen, now dead, to plot the September 13 Delhi blasts, said a senior Special Cell officer requesting anonymity.

“He was in Delhi before the blasts and had even otherwise kept regular telephonic contact with Ameen,” said the officer.