The alleged Indian Mujahideen suspect and accused in the April 2010 Chinnaswamy stadium blasts case, Fasih Mahmood, who is currently being interrogated by the Central Crime Branch of the city police at an undisclosed location in the city, has reportedly denied his role in the serial stadium blasts.
It is reliably learnt that he has told the investigating officers that he was in Saudi Arabia when the blasts were planned to protest the exclusion of the Pakistani cricket team in the Indian Premier League by Indian Mujahideen commander Mohammed Zarar Sidibapa alias Yasin Bhatkal and that he had no role in the planning or execution of the blasts.
A team from the Counter-Intelligence wing of the Andhra Pradesh police arrived in the city on Monday to quiz Fasih on his role in terrorist activities in Hyderabad.
Fasih, originally from Darbhanga district of Bihar, is a mechanical engineer from the Anjuman Engineering College, Bhatkal. He went to Saudi Arabia in 2007 and came under the radar of the Intelligence and enforcement agencies after Gauhar Aziz Khomani, one of the six alleged IM operatives arrested from Selaiyur in Chennai in November 2011.