National Investigation Ag-ency sleuths have fanned out across Bihar, UP, Jharkhand and Maharash-tra in a terror hunt after Thursday’s twin blasts in Hyderabad. Three absconding IM operatives — Asasd-ullah Akhtar, alias Haddi; Waqas, alias Ahmed; and Bada Sajid — have come to the notice of the NIA and Hyderabad police who are examining CCTV footage to look for leads on the trio.
The three men, from UP and Bihar and wanted in the 2011 Mumbai bombings, are emerging as key suspects in the Hyderabad blasts. While some persons have been detained, joint teams of Central and state police forces have spread out to gather more information on the absconding IM operatives from Azamgarh, UP, on the run since the 2008 Batla House encounter.