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Hyderabad blasts: 2nd narco test reveals bulk purchase of SIM cards

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  • A second round of narco-analysis conducted on Hyderabad bomb blasts suspect Imran Sayeed on Wednesday has tied up loose ends regarding names given by him during the September 4 narco-analysis test.

    Imran Sayeed, 23, an engineering student working as a part-time BPO employee in Hyderabad, is primarily being questioned in connection with the May 18 blasts at the Mecca Masjid and for the possible knowledge of the perpetrators of the August 25 blasts.

    Sources associated with the test said Imran had revealed that he had facilitated the stay, transportation and operational requirements of four people sent to Hyderabad by his uncle Shoaib Jagirdar in March this year.

    One of the four visitors, according to Imran, was Sheikh Sameer or Nayeem — an alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba operative arrested on April 1 from the West Bengal-Bangladesh border. During the two nacro-analysis tests, Nayeem had revealed that he facilitated transportation of people and also RDX to Hyderabad.

    In the Mecca Masjid blast that killed nine people, around 300 gm of an RDX-TNT mix was used, while a second bomb with a similar amount of explosive material was defused. With Nayeem saying that he transported nearly 10 kg of RDX to Hyderabad, investigators are now trying to find where the consignment could have gone.

    Sources said the second narco-analysis on Imran on Wednesday did not yield any result on any location where the RDX could be stored.

    The most crucial bits of information from the latest test relate to the bulk purchase of SIM cards — the identities of the seller, the buyers and the financiers — for alleged use by people sent to Hyderabad, sources said. Imran has revealed that 100 to 150 SIM cards were purchased in Hyderabad for distribution among associates.

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