REWARDED MANIPURI TERRORIST TURNED CRIMINAL ARRESTED

New Delhi, Feb 14, 2013

After a series of breakthrough apprehension of hard core Manipuri terrorists by the Special Cell of Delhi Police in the previous six months including two cases were live kidnappings were foiled in close association with the Manipur Police in joint operations, a recent input was received from Manipur Police that an accused Mohd. Abbas Khan, s/o Rajaul Haque, r/o Moijing Lingoiching, District Thoubal, Manipur has escaped from judicial custody while lodged in a hospital in Manipur purportedly for seeking treatment. Abbas was a self styled ‘Fighting Commander’ of ‘People’s United Liberation Front’ (PULF; a previously banned terrorist outfit of Manipur). He was also found to be involved in as many as 12 cases of murder, abduction and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act of Manipur.  

 

After receipt of this information, the team of Inspector Sanjay Dutt, Inspector Rahul Kumar and Inspector Dharmendar was tasked to locate and apprehend the accused. It was learnt that Mohd. Abbas Khan had earlier also been arrested by the Special Cell vide FIR No. 31/10, dated 15^th June 2010, u/ss. 420/467/468/471/411/34 IPC of PS Special Cell. It was also learnt that he was involved in vehicle theft and of making forged documents for these stolen vehicles at a very large scale in various parts of Delhi. After his arrest in the abovementioned case of the Special Cell, he was taken on remand by Manipur police from where he was remanded in judicial custody in FIR No. 123 (11) 12, u/ss. 379/120-B/482 IPC of PS Lilong and FIR No. 124 (11) 12 u/ss. 120-B/379/420/489 IPC & 25 (1-C) Arms Act of PS Lilong by the Chief Judicial Magistrate Thoubal. On 1^st December 2012, he was hospitalized at JNIMS Hospital from where he managed to escape from judicial custody. A case vide FIR No. 535(12) 2012 u/s 224 IPC was registered at PS Porompat Manipur in this regard.

 

It was also intimated by Manipur Police that this accused is the main accused of case FIR No. 136(12) 2012 LIL PS u/s. 302/34 IPC & 25(1-C) Arms Act and a cash reward of Rs 50,000/- (Fifty Thousand) has been declared for any information which may lead to his arrest.

 

The team of officers worked relentlessly and after sustained efforts including deployment of informers and mounting technical surveillance, credible inputs regarding the presence of this accused in Delhi were received. On 12^th February 2013, acting on the basis of secret information, accused Mohd. Abbas Khan @ Mohd. Fazlur Rehman @ Abbas @ Roshan, s/o Mohd. Rezaul Haque, r/o Maijing Leingoijing, District Thoubal, Manipur was located hiding at J-562, Shakur Pur, Delhi. Immediately, a raiding party was formed which, after a patient watch, located the accused and apprehended him swiftly from the above said premises.

 

During his preliminary interrogation, accused has revealed that he as born in Thoubal Moijing Village, PS & PO Thoubal on 1^st January 1982. He has a brother and four sisters.  He has studied up to X^th class at New Light Public School, Moijing, District Thoubal, Manipur. Thereafter, he went along with his father to Bangalore and took admission in class XI^th (Arts) at Lawire Memorial Junior College, Dorbani Nagar, Bangalore. During his stay in Bangalore, he got associated with Bangalore Manipuri Students’ Union. at that time, his father was an over ground worker of KYKL (a banned terrorist outfit of Manipur) who was killed in an encounter with security forces at Samurao, District Imphal West. After his studies, Abbas came back to Manipur and took admission at Dhanamajari College (DM), Imphal West, but gave up studies midway in the year 2002 due to financial problems. He got married in the year 2002 with one Shamim Bano. To earn his livelihood, Abbas started a cloth business whereby he used to bring clothes from Moreh and supply them further. He continued the cloth business till 2007.

 

In January 2007, one Shera @ Sanayai, r/o Lillong Houreibi Mayai Leikai, PO & PS Thoubal, who is a cousin of Abbas from his maternal side asked him to join the terrorist outfit namely Peoples’ United Liberation Front (PULF). Shera @ Sanayai was then the self styled Deputy Secretary (Finance) of PULF. In his new role, Abbas started collecting extortion money from several people and received a part of the money so collected.

 

In the month of March 2007, PULF got divided into three factions namely the Azad group, MI Khan group and Umar Farooq group. Abbas joined the MI Khan group. In order to dominate and to capture the whole outfit, the self styled commanders of these three outfits decided to eliminate their counterpart rivals. In this campaign, Abbas, along with Shera and one Thoi (since dead in encounter) killed a Pradhan namely Zuma Khan of a rival faction. Thereafter, Abbas along with Shera and Thoi abducted one Daulat who was working for the Azad faction. Daulat was later shot dead at Yumnam Haidrom.

 

In April 2007, Abbas was arrested by 5 Assam Rifle at Jiribam. However, he remained in jail for only 20 days and got bail.

 

In the year 2008, Abbas shifted to Delhi and started sending second hand cloths to Manipur. He lived in rented accommodations in various parts of Delhi i.e. Kotla Mubarakpur, Mahipalpur, Jamia, Ashram, Maharani Bagh etc. In April 2010, he met with one Rezauddin and started dealing in stolen bikes. Abbas also roped in one Guddu, r/o Jamia to steal expensive motor bikes from various parts of Delhi and to deliver the same at New Delhi Railway Station. The subject and Rezauddin used to send the engine and chassis numbers of the stolen bikes to one tout of Transport Authority, Imphal who got prepared forged registration documents of the stolen vehicle and send the same back to them. One receiving the documents, the stolen motor bikes were booked for transportation in the Rajdhani Express train. One Susheel used to take the deliveries at Dimapur Railway Station.

 

On 5^th June 2010, Abbas along with Rezauddin was arrested by the Special Cell/NDR, Delhi. He was arrested in four cases of auto theft at Delhi. Abbas remained in Tihar jail till March 2012. Thereafter, he was produced in the concerned court in Imphal on production warrant. In April 2012 he was shifted to Assam Rifles Camp after his detention under the provisions of National Security Act. While Abbas was in custody, one Hakim, r/o Lillong was pursuing his cases. However the subject developed the impression that Hakim was not pursuing his release and vacation of the NSA invoked against him sincerely and therefore, after managing to escape from judicial custody, Abbas along with one Mohd. Salim and Mohd. Rezauddin killed Hakim and since then, Abbas was hiding in Delhi.

 

The accused has been arrested on 12^th February 2013 u/s. 41.1(a) Cr PC from Shakur Pur, Delhi at 1600 hours. Manipur Police has been informed of his arrest. Further investigation is in progress.

(Sanjeev Kumar Yadav)

Deputy Commissioner of Police

Special Cell, Delhi

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