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Ex-ISI agent arrested in city

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1754519.cms

HYDERABAD: Stepped-up surveillance since the Mumbai serial blasts has led to the arrest of a former ISI agent here on Friday.

Police recovered two fake passports from his possession, and are now investigating whether he has any connection with the Mumbai blasts.

Mohammed Abdul Haleem alias Parvez alias Syed Javeed, 32, was allegedly involved in a 1993 conspiracy to carry out a series of bomb blasts in the city.

The serial blasts were planned by Ikwaan-ul-Muslimeen, a group set up with the alleged support of ISI. The blasts were planned days after a series of blasts that took place in the Abids and Humayunnagar police stations and at the railway reservation counter at Secunderabad.

A press release issued by the Commissioner's Task Force said Ikhwaan had sent Haleem, a resident of Nampally, to Bangladesh in 1993 to undergo arms warfare.

All of them were caught by the city police in 1993 and booked under various sections of the Arms and Explosives Act. The prime accused-Gowhar Ameen and Nisar Ahmed Bhatt were convicted.

Haleem managed to get a passport and escaped to Saudi Arabia, where he lived from November 2002 to June 2005. He visited Hyderabad in March 2004 to obtain another passport.