SIMI activists’ jailbreak: Ahmedabad youth accused in 2008 blasts

Mujeeb, Jamil’s elder son, was arrested by MP police in 2011. Jamil refused to speak to reporters who gathered outside his flat. Jamil works in the PWD.

The neighbour said, “I don’t know much about Mujeeb but whatever information I have gathered it seems that he was brainwashed by radical elements.” The family moved to Muhib apartments about six months ago.

According to Ahmedabad Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) which investigated the 2008 serial bomb blasts in the city, Mujeeb was facing charges of being an active member of banned SIMI, participating in a Halol terror training camp, buying cycles and planting bombs in Ahmedabad.

Mujeeb Sheikh

His lawyers in the Ahmedabad case said Mujeeb is not under trial as he was never produced in the court for committal of the trial after filing of the chargesheet.

DCB sources insisted Mujeeb was a key accused in that case along with Abdul Subhan alias Tauqir of Mumbai and Bada Sajid of Azamgarh.

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Mujeeb, a stone polisher from Juhapura, had allegedly formed a group of 12 to 15 youths before the July 26, 2008, serial blasts.

The interrogation of Alamzeb Afridi, said to be the first India recruit by the Islamic States and a key accused in the blasts case, has revealed that it was Mujeeb who introduced Afridi to SIMI activists and took him to the meetings held at Juhapura. Afridi is also a resident of Juhapura.