LeT sent Nepal conduit to build Naxal links

Madani told interrogators that he had not been able to establish any substantive links with the Naxals. He has said that he does not know if the Lashkar already has an independent channel with them.

Madani is understood to have been the Lashkar’s finance and logistics head in Nepal,and the kingpin of the fake Indian currency racket. He became the Pakistani terror group’s key man there after the arrest,in February 2008,of Sabahuddin,an accused in the attack on the CRPF’s Rampur camp.

Madani had also been instrumental in recruiting Indian youth for jehadi training in Pakistan. It was he who got Kamal Ahmed Ansari,an accused in the 2006 serial train bombings in Mumbai,to Pakistan.

Security agencies have been intrigued by the sophistication of the improvised explosive devices the Maoists have been using. Some of the Maoist literature seized by agencies contain references to shaped charges,a specialty of jehadis operating in the subcontinent.

The agencies are believed to be interrogating Ranjan Daimary,the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) leader handed over by Bangladesh on May 1,to investigate whether North-East insurgent groups have been supplying funds,weapons or training to the Maoists.

Daimary is learnt to have told interrogators that the ISI organised arms and explosives training for two batches of NDFB militants. He has confirmed that the NDFB received support from the NSCN (I-M) in Bangladesh and Myanmar,but has maintained that his organisation had no links with the Maoists.

However,there is evidence that the Maoists support all secessionist movements in the North-East,and have also contacted leaders of SIMI in an effort to build an anti-India coalition.