4 terror strikes in '07-'11 when Fasih was in India: Police

Fasih Mehmood, an alleged Indian Mujahideen (IM) founding member who was deported from Saudi Arabia last October, visited India on five occasions between 2007 and 2011, and four of those visits coincided with a terrorist attack in the country, police have said.

In a chargesheet filed in court on Saturday, the Delhi Police Special Cell said Fasih and other founding members of the IM received "generous support from many people in Pakistan who are well placed in the government there". The chargesheet — based on Fasih's confession — describes him as a "motivator" of the IM.

Immigration records show 30-year-old Fasih — who was arrested at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport on October 22, 2012 — came to India five times between May 2007 and October 2011, the chargesheet says.

During one of those visits — from February to June 2008 — a series of nine blasts killed over 60 people in Jaipur on May 13, 2008.

Two years later, when Fasih was in the country between February and April 2010, a bomb at the famous German Bakery in Pune killed 17 people on February 13, the chargesheet says. A month later — and days before he left — several people were injured after two bombs went off at Bangalore's Chinnaswamy Stadium on April 17.

Fasih was allegedly also in India on September 19, 2010 when, just over a fortnight ahead of the Commonwealth Games, two Taiwanese tourists were fired at and a car burst into flames close to the Jama Masjid in Delhi.

The chargesheet says forensic investigations point to Fasih's extensive knowledge of computer systems and an ability to use ghost or proxy servers while communicating over the Internet.

"This is a tactic used by technically proficient people to conceal their true identities. The logs of a particular duration show that when accused Fasih was actually in India (as per authenticated immigration details), the point of access of Internet is reflected as China," the chargesheet says.

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