New Delhi: Former Indian Mujahideen chief Yasin Bhatkal could have used VOIP or internet telephony to make calls to his aides from the highly-guarded Hyderabad jail, sources said.
The sources said the calls were intercepted in the last week of May. They were of long duration and Yasin made these calls to his wife in Jamia Nagar.
On May 28 intelligence agencies sent a report to the Ministry of Home Affairs, National Security Advisor and Telangana government regarding security review.
According to sources, Bhatkal told his wife that he would soon be out of jail with help from Damascus in Syria.
However, his brother-in-law denied the reports and said, "We have not received any call. How will he call us if he is in jail? We have not received any message from Yasin. We have no links with ISIS or Syria. We have not met him in the jail."
A further probe revealed that the phone was smuggled into the prison a month ago and Bhatkal and some other criminals had access to it.
Yasin Bhatkal, whose real name is Muhammad Ahmad Zarar Siddibapa, was arrested in 2013 from the India-Nepal border in Bihar. He hails from Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka. He co-founded the Indian Mujahideen in 2008 with his brothers Riaz Bhatkal and Abdul Subhan Qureshi.
He was on the NIA Most Wanted list and security agencies had been looking for him from the past five years. He is the only top Indian Mujahideen operative who decided to stay back in the country after the crackdown on the outfit.
He is alleged to have been involved in the 2010 Pune German Bakery blast in which 17 people were killed and is suspected to the person who actually planted the explosives. He was caught on CCTV trying to conceal his identity by wearing a cap.
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