At the day-long meeting, Nagori was among the main speakers along with Peedical Abdul Shibly, 31, a software engineer and a veteran of SIMI activities in Kerala and Karnataka. There was Hafeez Hussain alias Adnan, 27, the head of a fledgling Karnataka unit who had taken Nasir to Bhopal to meet Nagori. Nasir was present too and so was Kamruddin Nagori, brother of Safdar and the man in charge of SIMI activities in Andhra Pradesh. Also present were Abdul Subhan Qureshi alias Toukir, SIMI national treasurer and former Karnataka head of the outfit, and Shahbaz Badrohi, a key leader from UP—both currently at large.
Last year, on December 8, 9 and 10, most members of this group met again. This time, at a place called Vagamon near Ernakulam, Kerala, for a hill and forest training camp. At this camp, there were about 40 participants, again from states where SIMI is active. According to police statements given by Shibly, one of the main organisers of this camp along with his brother Shaduly, trainees lived only on a diet of dried fruits to toughen them physically and mentally.
Meetings in 2007 were also held in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and two other places in Karnataka. Nagori, Shibly, Toukir, Kamruddin, and Adnan were among the key participants.

The origin of this initiative to revive SIMI—that had the same core group along with Ehtesham Siddiqui, one of the key accused in the Mumbai train blasts case of July 2006—is believed to lie in a meeting in Ujjain, held days ahead of the Mumbai blasts. The meeting was called by the hardline faction led by Nagori who didn’t invite moderates like Shahid Badr Falahi (he was president of SIMI when the outfit was first banned in 2001).

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