A common strain running through the statements of key arrested SIMI leaders, like Shibly and Adnan, is the increasing tension between the Nagori group and the moderates. In July 2006, the two groups virtually parted ways, with the Nagori faction taking the path of jihad. The July 2006 meeting also decided to allow activists like Nagori and Kamruddin, who had crossed the 30-year age limit set for SIMI members, to continue as active members of the group.
The chance arrest of Raziuddin Nasir on January 11 this year at Honnali in Davangere district of Karnataka, while he was in the possession of a stolen motorcycle, first blew the lid off the clandestine activities of Nagori and his close associates.

The Corps of Detectives of the Karnataka police arrested 11 people who had taken part in the Karnataka meetings, including students of engineering, medicine and alternative medicine from Karnataka and a former software engineer from Kerala settled in Bangalore, Yahya Kammukutty, in February 2008.
Nagori, his brother Kamruddin, Shibly and his brother Shaduly, Adnan, Aamil Pervez (a SIMI functionary from Jharkhand), Toukir, Shahbaz—all regarded as key ideology pushers, however, remained elusive.

On March 27, the Indore Police, acting on a tip-off, raided a house in the city and were reportedly taken aback by the presence of as many as 13 SIMI activists, including Shibly and Adnan. Two key members, Toukir and Shahbaz from UP, however, were not present in the house.
The meeting, sources said, was intended to regroup, analyse future action plans, rally legal support for those arrested in Karnataka and to find ways to shelter those who had not been arrested.
Evidence against most of the accused exists in the form of literature and propaganda material seized from the accused, including compact discs on gas cylinder bombs believed to have been sourced and distributed by one of the core group members yet to be arrested.

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