A suspected member of the banned Indian Mujahideen outfit was arrested by the Delhi police on Tuesday. Accused Assadullah Rehman, alias Dilkash, 20, a close associate of absconding leader of IM’s Bihar module Ahmad Siddi Bappa, is believed to be an expert in the manufacture of arms and ammunition.
Dilkash, a native of Bihar’s Dharbanga, was arrested from trans-Yamuna area on Tuesday after a trap was laid in the Chandu Nagar, Karawal Nagar area. One kg of explosive powder, a detonator, a timer and a mobile phone were recovered from the house that he had recently taken up on rent.
He was produced in the court of chief metropolitan magistrate Vinod Yadav, who remanded Dilkash to the police custody for seven days till April 4. The judge also said that “whosoever interrogate him should record their name” and the also the interrogating officers should wear “clear identification tags”. The accused counsel will be given half-an-hour day to talk to his client.
“Dilkash was an important member of IM’s Dharbanga module led by Ahmad Siddi Bappa Jarar, alias Shahrukh. After finishing his schooling in 2010, he came in contact with Mohammad Kafeel Ahmad, the motivator and ideologue of the IM who inducted him into the group. In February 2011, Kafeel introduced him to Shahrukh who instructed him to come to Delhi in April last year,” deputy commissioner of police (crime) Ashok Chand said.
Mr Chand said Shahrukh took him to the factory at Meer Vihar, Nangloi, where he learnt to work on the lathe machine and assisted Mohd Irshad and Shahrukh in manufacturing of pistols and other arms and ammunition. “He had become a trusted aide of Shahrukh. In the last week of November 2011, after the apprehension of Irshad and other IM members, Shahrukh directed him to leave the factory premises, along with whatever explosives and other material he could lay his hands on,” Mr Chand added.
Dilkash fled from the factory and went to Mumbai where he got a job in a construction site at Ambi Valley, Maharashtra. “He worked there as a supervisor for around two months. In mid February 2012, he left Mumbai and went to Nepal and then came to Delhi,” Chand said.