Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 27: Police today sounded their counterparts in Hyderabad on the arrest of a suspect from Andhra Pradesh at Ramban and sought their support for investigating him in connection with twin blasts that rocked Hyderabad on February 21 killing 16 persons and injuring over 100 others.
DIG Doda-Ramban range Gareeb Dass told the Excelsior that Mohammad Salah-ud-Din, a resident of Fateh Darwaza, Hyderabad City had been working in Saudi Arabia for past six to seven years as an Accountant in a private firm and had landed at Hyderabad on January 23 this year in a flight.
He went missing from his house within a couple of days and his family had lodged a missing report at Hussaini Alam police station at 1.30 pm on January 26.
The DIG said Salah-ud-Din, who was an M Com and had studied at Usmania University at Hyderabad has come under the radar of Jammu Police as he was found moving under mysterious circumstances yesterday at Ramban town on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway and had also claimed to have visited Srinagar.
Police said they have arrested the youth on the charges of suspicion and were questioning him to ascertain whether he was linked to twin blasts at Hyderabad.
“The timing of the youth’s arrival to Hyderabad from Saudi Arabia and then Srinagar has created doubts among police and security agencies and that was why he was being questioned vigorously’’, Gareeb Dass said, adding that Salah-ud-Din though being highly qualified and working in a prominent private company in Saudi Arabia as Accountant was dressed like a beggar, apparently to dodge security agencies.
On being quizzed on the motive of his visit to Jammu and Kashmir, Salah-ud-Din told police that he wanted to visit Srinagar to offer prayers at a dargah.
Police said in addition to passport, they have recovered a train ticket from the possession of suspect on which he had traveled from Hyderabad to Jammu. He had undertaken his onward journey in a TATA Sumo.
Police added that in the middle of February, the suspect couldn’t explain his whereabouts creating further doubts about him.
“We are questioning him but joint interrogation with Hyderabad Police would help get clues’’, police said, adding their counterparts in Hyderabad have assured Jammu Police that they would be reaching Ramban soon to quiz the suspect.
Though Hyderabad Police have blamed Indian Mujahideen (IM), an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) for the terror strikes, they have not been able to make any major breakthrough in the case so far.
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