Indian Mujahideen terror suspect Syed Maqbool, who was freed from Charlapally jail in Hyderabad on remission (good conduct), had revealed during his arrest by the Delhi police in October 2012 that the Indian Mujahideen was planning to carry out attacks on Bodh Gaya.
Maqbool told interrogators that the IM wants to take revenge against attacks on Muslims in Burma. Maqbool was also questioned during the recent twin blasts in Dilsukhnagar.
Syed Maqbool alias Zuber, a former convict, was picked up by the Delhi police with the assistance of counter-intelligence sleuths from Shaheen Nagar in October 2012. The key allegation by the Delhi police against him was that he was planning a suicide bomb attack in Bodh Gaya in Bihar to avenge attacks on Muslims in Burma, and also imparted training to those responsible for a couple of low-intensity bomb blasts in Pune in 2012.
It is alleged that in July 2012, Maqbool aided other IM terror suspects to carry out recce of Dilsukhnagar, Begum Bazaar and Abids in Hyderabad. He was said to be acting on the instructions of the most wanted terror suspect Riyaz Bhatkal.
Maqbool, son of Syed Haji, was part of the notorious Azam Ghori terror module in the city. He is 35 years old, has two children and shuttles between Hyderabad and his hometown of Satamnagar in Dharmabad near Nanded in Maharashtra.
Maqbool was convicted for the murder of one Krishna Moorthy in 1999 in Bodhan, Nizamabad, and sentenced to life, but was released from jail in October 2009 after commutation of his sentence.
The police found that for each operation, four separate cells operated. A top source of the home department said, “A recce will be conducted by one group. Another group plans it. Bomb-making is done by a third group. For execution, there will be a separate group. Maqbool was part of the recce group.”