HYDERABAD: Five suspected terrorists being taken to court from prison, were killed in a clash with police near Alair in Nalgonda district of Telangana on Tuesday. Among them is Vikaruddin Ahmed, accused of killing at least two policemen, one in Hyderabad one in 2009 and another in Maninagar in Gujarat.
Police said the men, who were being taken from the prison to court Warangal Hyderabad 150 km, were killed when one of them tried to dominate security personnel escort and snatch a weapon in an attempt to escape. Whether shot from the gun is still unclear.
The five were shot inside the police van carrying them. They were partially handcuffed and civil rights activists have questioned why the team of 17 security officers accompanying them could not have brought them under control without shooting dead.
An investigation by an executive magistrate and ordered a judicial inquiry into the match, following recent directives of the Supreme Court in a case of PUCL Vs State of Maharashtra in 2014.
Telangana Director General of Police Anurag Sharma said the suspected terrorists were partially handcuffed as they had in the past attacked policemen. Vikaruddin Ahmed, the alleged founder of a local terrorist group Tehreek-Ghalba-e-Islam (TGI), was arrested in 2010. The other four men were partners.
The DGP said that the five dead men today are not known to have any links to any other terrorist groups like SIMI, Indian Mujahideen or leave. So draw a link with the murder of two SIMI activists Saturday is wrong, he said. “We will follow the due process for the investigation,” the DGP.
Telangana is on alert and intensive combing operations are in Nalgonda district after two suspected SIMI activists were shot dead there on Saturday in a shootout with police in which also killed a policeman. The two men were trying to escape the state after the death of two security officers last week, police said.
Dead men Saturday suspected to have been part of a group of seven suspected SIMI agents who escaped from a jail in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, in October 2013. One of them had died before, and one had surrendered, and Police five states are now trying to locate the three remaining fugitives.
Apparently they have been involved in several crimes, since escaped, including a train explosion last year in Chennai, in which a woman died and 14 were injured.
Five suspected Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) terrorists have been killed in Warangal Telangana while trying to escape from police custody. All five terrorists were being taken to a court in the capital of Telangana Hyderabad from Warangal when they attacked police officers escorting.
According to police officials, terrorists also tried to seize weapons and escape after security personnel opened fire killing them all. The incident took place in Warangal Highway Hyderabad.
Police said the five terrorists were Telangana ISI connections and working for SIMI. The state has put on high alert after the news of alleged terrorists to move around in the state.
On April 4, 2015, two suspected SIMI activists were shot dead during a meeting in the Nalagonda Telangana district. The two were identified as Mohammad and Mohammad Aslam Ejazuddin.
They were among five SIMI activists who fled prison Khandwa Madhya Pradesh in 2013.
His images allegedly appeared during an explosion in Uttar Pradesh Bijnore. They also appeared in an explosion in Pune. Search notice of these men was issued and police were searching for them.
His hand was also suspected in some other minor explosions throughout India.
