New Delhi, Sunday 6 December 2009: The Jammu and Kashmir Police will soon send a team to Bangalore to seek custody of Tadiyantavide Nazir, alleged mastermind of Indian Mujahideen terror outfit, who is believed to be behind an exfiltration bid by four Keralites through Kupwara last year. Nazir, currently in custody of Bangalore Police, is understood to have claimed the responsibility for last year’’s Bangalore blasts, which killed two persons.

He is wanted by the JK Police to understand the exact number of youths who had managed to exfiltrate from the state, official sources said. He is alleged to have recruited dozens of youth from Kerala and sent them for terror training to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir using the exfiltration routes in the state.

His name surfaced last year when the state police shot dead four Kerala residents who were training with a Lashkar-e-Taiba unit in Kupwara district of north Jammu and Kashmir. He was also in constant touch with Indian Mujahideen commander Riyaz Shahbandri who is also known as Riyaz Bhatkal.

A senior police official from the state said his custodial interrogation was necessary as this would help the police in knowing the number of youth and the name of people who had helped him in the state.