Jamshedpur: Following the arrest of Dawood Ibrahim’s close aide by the Gujarat ATS, the East Singhbhum district police have come into action to prevent any locality, especially Mango becoming a safe haven for ultras.
The district police have decided to strictly implement the rule of informing the police by house owners before giving them on rent to anyone.
Senior SP, M Tamil Vanan said that there is already a rule for the house owners to inform the police station concerned before letting one’s house on rent.
” We are stricly going to implement the rule.The arrest of a close associate of dreaded terrorist Dawood Ibrahim from a rented house in Mango is an achievement but still we want to further increase vigil. We will have to take major decisions in this regard so as to stop any such element like Abdul Majid Kutti, the alleged associate of Dawood from making any part of the city as a shelter, “said Vanan.
He said that it will be essential from now onwards anyone wanting to let one’s house on rent he or she will have to inform the local police about the tenant beforehand.
Kutti (58) whom the Gujarat ATS had been searching for the past 22 years in connection with a case of supplying firearms and RDX was staying at a duplex on rent at Sahara City in Mango since the last one-and-half years on a fake name as Kamaal Khan.
Sources in the agencies informed that the steel city is slowly emerging as a breeding ground of Islamic radicals and also a safe haven for harbouring ultras.
A team of ATS, Jharkhand was camping at the steel city to keep vigil on the movement and further developments.
Notably, the Al Qaida’s Jamshedpur link was established after a team of Delhi police had arrested Katki from Cuttack in Odisha in December 2015. On the revelation made by Katki, the Delhi police arrested Sami from a place in Haryana on December 18 for link with al Qaida.
In 2016, the home department had asked to hand over the probe into the case related to the suspected al-Qaida operatives to ATS Jharkhand.
During interrogation, Katki had confessed to have started spreading the network for al Qaida in six states including Jharkhand, Odisha, Bengal, Bihar by selecting candidates for going on the radical path and even giving them training at his Madarsa in Cuttack.
A police officer pointed out that the ATS is trying to find out the number of people, especially the youngsters whom he had enticed to join the terror group.
