More than a year after a terror-related incident occurred, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has decided to take over the investigation of a case related to the suspicious coded letter addressed to LeT operative Sarfaraz Nawaz, who was lodged in the Bangalore Central Prison, sent by his close associate Thadiyantavide Nazir from the Kannur Central Prison.
“The incident is a serious one and we suspect that it has terrorism link. So the NIA Directorate has decided to probe into the case. The decision was taken based on a report by the Kannur Town police which had registered the case and probed it initially,” an NIA top official said.
The Ministry of Home Affairs will soon issue the notification regarding handing over of the case to the NIA. Nazir had given a coded letter to a jail inmate to be handed over to Sarfraz Nawas, who is in a high security cell in Bangalore prison. It was on August 23, 2011 that a letter related to terrorist activities was seized by Kannur prison authorities from T K Riyas of Kasargod, one of the accused in a vehicle theft case.
According to police sources, the letter was handed over to Riyas by Thadiyantavide Nazir. Riyas revealed about this during the interrogation.
Nazir has been convicted for life in the Kozhikode twin blast cases that rocked Kozhikode on March 3, 2006 and is an accused in the Bangalore serial blasts case and several other cases in Kerala. “The letter was in Urdu and Arabic. It contains suspicious words and some codes for terror-related operations. So the letter has been sent for scientific examination,” Kannur Town police said.
“It was a one-page letter and was sent by a person named Majeed. During the investigation it was confirmed that the address and the name of the person were fake.
“Nazir’s father’s name is Majeed. But he has no connection with the letter,” the police said and added that they had interrogated Nazir, but he declined to reveal any thing in this regard. The NIA will also take over the investigation in the e-mail snooping case in which Biju, a sub-inspector attached to the High Tech Crime Enquiry Cell is the main accused.
“P A Dasthakir, District Medical Officer (Homeo), Thiruvananthapuram, and Advocate Shanavas are the other accused in the case. The first accused, Biju, while working as a reserve SI at the Hi-tech Crime Inquiry Cell, stole secret documents received for verification from the Special Branch. The copy of the documents were leaked out to a magazine with the intention to provoke a particular community. Dasthakir, a member of a banned organisation, was the brain behind the whole incident,” the police said.
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