New Hyderabad Mayor of MIM is involved in many cases

Hyderabad, January 04: Municipal Corporator representing Ahmednagar Municipal Division, Mr. Majid Hussain is allegedly involved in some criminal cases registered in Humayunnagar police station. In 2011, Majid Hussain had assaulted Mr. Madhukar Swamy Inspector of Police, Humayunnagar. Police had registered a case number 46/2011 under section 307 (attempt to murder) etc.

Another case was registered against for assaulting Praja Rajyam leader Shaik Mannan Sayeed. The corporator has obtained stay order from the court in these cases.


As per the case (crime number 38/2011) registered at the Humayun Nagar police station on January 20, 2011, Majid Hussain was booked under section 353 (assault or use of criminal force to deter a public servant from discharge of his duty) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for stopping police from conducting searches and vehicle checking at 1st Lancer. Subsequently, when Hussain approached the high court the investigation was stayed.


On February 6, 2011, a group of assailants attacked one Syed Altaf with knives and iron rods at Ist Lancer. Altaf suffered injuries in the attack and police booked an attempt to murder case (crime number 38/2011) under section 307 of the IPC against the assailants, who directly participated in the attack, and also Majid Hussain, who was suspected to be the conspirator. In this case, except Hussain, all the other accused have been arrested by the Humayun Nagar police.


Similarly, on November 4, 2011, based on the directions of a local court, the Humayun Nagar police had booked a case against Majid Hussain under sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 352 (assault or criminal force otherwise than on grave provocation ), 355 (assault or criminal force with intent to dishonor a person) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC. The case was booked after Shaik Mannan Sayeed, a local PRP leader, approached the court with a petition alleging that local police had not responded to his complaint against the Ahmednagar corporator. The petitioner alleged that during the Rachabanda programme at Ist Lancer in 2011, Majid Hussain had abused and physically assaulted him.


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Wiki Leaks : Hyderabad Terror Groups Have International Links But Don't Take Orders From Pakistan/bangladesh, Says State Intel Chief

Sourcehttp://wikileaks.org/cable/2007/08/07CHENNAI541.html


 SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging conversation only days before the August 25 bombings in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh's Police Intelligence Chief told post that his office closely monitors 40 to 50 Indian nationals in Hyderabad who have links to Islamic terrorist groups. He said many of these young men have traveled to Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Chechnya, usually transiting through the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia, where they received training in terrorist methods. The Intelligence Chief stressed, however, that these young men are "small-time," and that they do not currently receive direction or coordination from abroad. END SUMMARY. 

(U) ANDHRA PRADESH INTEL CHIEF TALKS TERRORISM TWO DAYS BEFORE HYDERABAD BOMBINGS ---------------------------------------------
¶2. 
  (SBU) On August 25, bombs exploded at two separate locations in Hyderabad, the capital of the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh (refs A and B). The two nearly simultaneous attacks killed 42 people and injured more than ¶60. No American citizens or other foreign nationals were killed in the attacks. Media reports quickly blamed the militant Islamic groups Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami (HuJI) and Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT) for the attacks.
 
¶3. (C) On August 23, two days before the attacks, visiting political/economic officer met with K. Aravinda Rao, Additional Director General for Police - Intelligence. Rao heads Andhra Pradesh's intelligence operation and spent almost an hour candidly discussing the state's efforts to combat Maoist (ref C) and Islamic terrorist groups. Rao said that he is "confident" that the state has the Maoist threat contained. But he said he worries about the threat of Islamic terrorism because, unlike the Maoists who he described as a solely internal problem, Islamic terrorism has international implications.

(C) "SMALL-TIME INDIAN BOYS" GO ABROAD FOR TERRORIST TRAINING BUT DON'T TAKE ORDERS FROM OUTSIDE --------------------------------------------- --------
 
¶4. (C) Rao told us his officers closely monitor 40 to 50 "Indian boys" -- young Indian nationals -- who are associated with Islamic terrorist groups. He described them as "small-time" young men with minimal job prospects. Rao said with the exception of one or two engineers, they are generally uneducated. He said many are good at tinkering with their hands, noting that several of them work as cell-phone repairmen.
 
¶5. (C) Rao blamed the ideology of the Majlis-e-Ittehadul- Muslimeen (MIM), a Hyderabad-based political party, for creating an environment conducive to recruitment by Islamic terrorist groups of young people in Hyderabad's predominantly Muslim old city. But he said MIM's ideology, as well as the appeal of Islamic terrorist outfits, has waned as Hyderabad's economic prosperity has reached into the old city. He said that the average young Muslim is not interested in MIM or joining a terrorist group.

(NOTE: In a meeting hours before the bombing, Assaduddin Owaisi, the MIM's sole Member of Parliament, agreed with Rao's contention that Hyderabad's economic growth is benefiting the city's Muslims. He, of course, did not think that economic prosperity reduced the appeal of his party, which CHENNAI 00000541 002 OF 003 gained notoriety recently for publicly physically attacking Bangladeshi writer 
 Taslima Nasreen at an event in Hyderabad, triggering liberal condemnation across India. END NOTE.)  
¶6. (C) Rao said many of these young Indian nationals have traveled to Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Chechnya, usually transiting through the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia, where they received training in terrorist methods. He said that at any given time as many as half of them are out of the country, including the HuJI operative Mohammed Abdul Sahed (aka Bilal) whom Rao said was responsible for the May 18 bombing of Hyderabad's historic mosque, Mecca Masjid (refs D and E). (NOTE: Media reports have said Bilal is also responsible for the August 25 bombings. END NOTE.) 

But when we asked Rao if the young men receive orders from overseas, he emphatically said that they do not take "direction" or "coordination" from the outside. Rao went on to say that these terrorists do not receive funds from overseas, taking particular pains to say that the terrorist groups in Hyderabad are not using the informal money transfer system traditionally used in the Islamic world known as "hawala."

(COMMENT: The day after the bombings, Rao reversed course, telling our Regional Security Office that the Hyderabad bombings were directed from abroad by HuJI or LeT. This change was likely due to the fact that Rao's political superiors, including the state's Chief Minister, had publicly blamed outside forces for the bombings. Rao's candid August 23 comments, unaffected by the politics of the August 25 bombings, are likely more reflective of his own views. END COMMENT.)

(C) HYDERABAD-BASED TERRORISTS ONLY CAPABLE OF ATTACKS ON SOFT TARGETS ---------------------------------------- ¶7. (C) When we asked about the capabilities of the Hyderabad-based terrorists, Rao said they would be unable to conduct attacks on locations that have reasonably good security. He said due to their limited capabilities, the terrorists in Hyderabad would not be able to attack U.S. and multinational businesses, or the future U.S. Consulate in Hyderabad. Rao said, quite presciently, that his concern was with attacks on soft targets such as parades, places of worship, shopping areas, and other public gathering places. (C) TERRORISTS USING SATELLITE PHONES; CENTRAL GOVERNMENT IGNORES STATE'S REQUEST FOR TRACKING TECHNOLOGY --------------------------------------------- ------------- 
 
¶8. (C) Rao said he believes that at least a couple of the Hyderabad-based terrorists use Thuraya satellite phones to evade detection. Rao asked us whether we could help him identify vendors or institutions who could help Andhra Pradesh track such communications. When we asked why he needed the United States to assist, Rao said he had approached the Indian central government's Intelligence Bureau on a number of occasions but that his requests had gone ignored. He expressed frustration with lack of support from the central government, saying that the ability to track satellite phone communications would advance the state's efforts to combat terrorism. 
 
¶9. (C) COMMENT: Rao, a twenty-year police veteran who previously served as a senior officer in the Hyderabad police department, came across as serious, yet realistic, about fighting Islamic terrorism. The frustration Rao expressed over poor cooperation between the state and central governments spilled into the media in the days following the bombings. Statements in the media, attributed to unnamed central government officials, said CHENNAI 00000541 003 OF 003 the state police ignored warnings of an imminent terror strike issued by the center's Intelligence Bureau just five days before the bombings. Unnamed state police officials responded saying the Intelligence Bureau's warning was "too vague" and not "an actionable intelligence input.

" ¶10. (C) COMMENT CONTINUED. Rao cautioned against looking at the Hyderabad-based terrorists as evidence of radicalization of India's Muslim community, noting that only a handful of the city's millions of Muslims have gone the route of terrorism. His views regarding the international dimension to the threat merit attention, particularly his belief that although the Hyderabad-based terrorists have gone abroad for training they do not take direction from overseas. His sober August 23 assessment directly contradicts the post-bombing allegations in the media and by government officials (including his own August 26 statement to our RSO) that the attacks were orchestrated by LeT in Pakistan or HuJI in Bangladesh. To date, neither state or central government officials have come forward with evidence demonstrating that LeT or HuJI ordered the attacks from abroad. END COMMENT.

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 http://www.cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=07CHENNAI541

Hyderabad: major terrorist center in India, with strong local Muslim support. Every house is a cell, directly linked with Pakistan

“Ram Mohan Reddy, a prominent Hindu lawyer, claimed: “Hyderabad is the epicentre of all this terrorism in the world.


“Every house is a cell and everyday those people in Pakistan are on the phone and internet with people here drawing strength from Hyderabad. Terrorism has become such a big problem because of government laxity.”


“The predicament of India’s Muslim minority plays only a small role in the indoctrination of the youth, according to Commissioner Rao. “This new generation has much broader grievances,” he said. “They are motivated by extreme views on the American presence in Iraq, Middle East frictions and Muslim torment worldwide.”

Mumbai attacks: How Indian-born Islamic militants are trained in Pakistan


An underground network of Islamic extremists has recruited a new generation of Indian-born terrorists by exploiting sectarian tensions in the fault-line city of Hyderabad.


By Damien McElroy in Hyderabad
 
13 Dec 2008, www.telegraph.co.uk


Indian authorities have denied that there is a homegrown terrorist threat to the country, instead blaming Pakistan for allowing Islamist attacks including the atrocities in Mumbai to be launched across its borders.


But The Sunday Telegraph has learned that scores of young Muslim men have disappeared from the central Indian city of Hyderabad, suspected of leaving for Pakistan to be trained by the country’s Islamist terror groups.


As many as 40 potential recruits are reported to have left the city – which has a large Muslim minority – under extremist guidance, while many other young men cannot be traced.


Police efforts to track the youths have floundered in the wake of the Mumbai attacks last month. A wall of community silence has protected the activities of teachers and other shadowy figures working inside fundamentalist Islamic schools and mosques.


“We have tried to establish where the city’s youth has gone but we don’t know,” said Hyderabad’s police commissioner, Prasada Rao. “We know they have gone to other places, either Indian states or abroad. We are checking but the parents or the others will not let us into what’s going on.”


Two Islamic movements based in Hyderabad, Darsgah Jihad-o-Shahadath (DJS) and Tahreek Tahfooz Shaer-e-Islam (TTSI), have been accused by local police of allegedly acting as “feeder” groups for militants seeking to recruit armed fighters. They have denied the allegations.


Members of a third local group, the Students Islamic Movement of India – which has been banned by the government – carried out a gun attack on police just days after the Mumbai attacks.


Police in Mumbai blamed 10 Pakistanis and their leaders back home for the carnage that killed 171 people last month. But Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the banned Pakistan-based group India accuses of planning the attack, has deep ties to Hyderabad. When an initial claim of responsibility for the Mumbai attacks was made in the name of “Deccan Mujahideen” – a previously unknown group – the perpetrators revived a historic Islamic claim on the Deccan Plateau, the territory which stretches between Mumbai and Hyderabad.


Extensive surveillance operations and intelligence investigations have failed to penetrate the inner workings of Hyderabad’s radicals, officials admitted. “These kind of elements that are linked to violence even allow us to observe their gatherings,” said Commissioner Rao. “But they know we are there and so do nothing to trigger suspicion.”


Officials at the DJS madrassahs – religious schools – in Hyderabad were not willing to discuss the disappearance of the city’s young men.

While there is no suggestion that the organisation orchestrates terrorist acts, the DJS carries a message on its website that is explicit about the right of Muslims to resort to violence.


“The DJS has trained and are training thousands of Muslim youths to defend themselves and to help, protect and defend the other Muslims,” it states, before adding that once trained in “self defence” members can leave to join any other Muslim group.


It continues that “the long term goal of the DJS remains to achieve the supremacy and prevalence of Islam in practice in its entirety”.


Hyderabad, like war-torn Kashmir, has been disputed since Indian partition when its princely rulers chose India over the Muslim homeland. Even though the city was the venue for a recent gathering of conservative Muslim clerics, who issued a fatwa against terrorism following the Mumbai attacks, riots and terrorist activity have risen steadily in the city since the emergence of radical Islam across south Asia.


The atmosphere in Hyderabad’s alleys and markets leading from its Raj-era square is marked by mutual loathing and suspicion between Muslim and Hindu sects.


“The young people are totally insecure,” said Omar Farook Sidique, a madrassah owner. “Everything for them is highly impossible here – the situation is all manipulated for political reasons. Every killing and every beating is given labels to put down legitimate activities.”


But Ram Mohan Reddy, a prominent Hindu lawyer, claimed: “Hyderabad is the epicentre of all this terrorism in the world.

“Every house is a cell and everyday those people in Pakistan are on the phone and internet with people here drawing strength from Hyderabad. Terrorism has become such a big problem because of government laxity.”


Violence has marred Hyderabad’s recent drive to develop a high-tech reputation by adopting a second name: Cyberabad.


Deprivation in the predominantly Muslim old city is palpable. A lake of raw sewage, populated with pleasure boats, sits not far from the construction site of an elevated highway.


“The circumstances for Muslims have changed for the worse in the 60 years of India’s independence,” said Judge E. Ismail of the provincial Human Rights Commission. “Muslims have fallen down in education, health and are not properly represented in the police or the administration. They feel they are not part of the mainstream.


“It’s not as if terrorism started for these reasons but some people misguide the youth that because of this they are entitled to heaven.”


Hindu activists maintain a vigilant outcry against supposed government concessions that they condemn as nurturing extremism.


The predicament of India’s Muslim minority plays only a small role in the indoctrination of the youth, according to Commissioner Rao. “This new generation has much broader grievances,” he said. “They are motivated by extreme views on the American presence in Iraq, Middle East frictions and Muslim torment worldwide.”

http://islamicterrorism.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/hyderabad-major-terrorist-center-in-india-with-strong-local-muslim-support-every-house-is-a-cell-directly-linked-with-pakistan/

Andhra terrorists don’t take orders from Pak, said former top cop

  Sreenivas Janyala

Two days before the twin blasts in Hyderabad, former Andhra Pradesh Intelligence chief K Aravinda Rao told a US Consulate officer that the ideology of Hyderabad-based Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen (MIM) was creating an environment conducive to recruitment by Islamic terrorist groups of young people in Hyderabad’s predominantly Muslim old city, states a classified cable sent on August 29, 2007 by the US Consulate, Chennai, and released last week by WikiLeaks.

Rao, who retired as the state’s Director General of Police on June 30, 2011, spoke with a political and economic officer of US Consulate on August 23, 2007, two days before the blasts at Lumbini Park and Gokul Chat House that killed 42 people. Rao told the officer that 40 to 50 Indian nationals in Hyderabad who have links to Islamic terrorist groups were being monitored at that time and many of them had travelled to Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Chechnya, where they received training in terror methods.


Rao blamed HuJI operative Mohammed Abdul Sahed alias Shahid Bilal for the May 18, 2007 blast at Mecca Masjid. He said terrorist groups in Hyderabad did not take directions from abroad, a statement that he changed immediately after the August 25 blasts, telling the US Regional Security Office that the Hyderabad bombings were directed from abroad by HuJI or LeT.

During the conversation, Rao expressed frustration over the lack of coordination between state and Central intelligence and security agencies especially when he approached the Central Intelligence Bureau several times seeking help in tracking satellite phones which he suspected were being used by two Hyderabad-based terror suspects, but received no response. Rao sought US assistance in tracking Thuraya satellite phones. 

 “On August 23, two days before the attacks, a visiting political/economic officer met with Rao... and spent almost an hour candidly discussing the state’s efforts to combat Maoist and Islamic terrorist groups. Rao said he is “confident” that the state has the Maoist threat contained. But he said he worries about the threat of Islamic terrorism because, unlike the Maoists who he described as a solely internal problem, Islamic terrorism has international implications,” the cable states. The cable, sent under the header ‘Hyderabad terror groups have international links but don’t take orders from Pakistan/ Bangladesh, says State Intel chief’ was sent by Consul General David Hopper. “The day after the bombings, Rao reversed course...This change was likely due to the fact that Rao’s political superiors, including the state’s Chief Minister, had publicly blamed outside forces for the bombings,” it observes.

 http://www.indianexpress.com/news/andhra-terrorists-dont-take-orders-from-pak-said-former-top-cop/841755/0