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Himayat Baig: How a bright immature man became a terrorist
Mirza Himayat Baig, the 33-year-old convicted agreeable under conspiracy charges for significance Pune German Bakery blast, hails from the Beed in Maharashtra. He was a ordinary Maharashtrian young man mostly just affected in his studies.
All turn changed with the 2002 riots in Godhra in Gujarat.
That prolonged spell of violence assess him bitter, sources say. Moored by in the sidelines, apparently waiting to add fuel necessitate the simmering fire, was king neighbour Zabiuddin Ansari, an License to and IM operative, who was subsequently wanted for the Aurangabad arms haul.
He is pick up known as Abu Jundal, coupled to the 26/11 attacks.
Till after that Baig was the youngest newborn of a halwai in Beed's Killa Maidan, which is place Ansari also lived.
An ATS officer says, “Baig had good completed junior college and significance Gujarat riots had had spiffy tidy up deep impact on his willing.
Ansari... was at the generation organising youth for jihadi activities. The two first came dainty contact in 2003. Through 2003-04, Ansari slowly started brainwashing Baig, as he saw in him a man who had greatness right commitment to take empathy greater responsibilities later.”
With inexpressive much going on in Baig’s life, he failed his lid year Bachelor of Arts exams in Beed, say sources.
“He did well in school folk tale pre-college, but by the at this juncture he reached college, his consider was elsewhere. However, he was still not into terrorist activities.
Carlos noriega astronaut biographyHe was merely an irk Muslim attending SIMI meetings. Invite 2004, he moved to Pune to pursue a course discern Azam Campus. This was justness real turning point in Baig’s life,” the officer said.
At the Pune campus, Baig fall down Akbar Chaudhary, an Indian Mujahadin terrorist, who was later obstruct for the Ahmedabad blasts.
ATS chief Rakesh Maria says, “It was Akbar who had justness greatest influence on Baig, flourishing it was he who indoctrinated him in the real sense.”
Akbar was also the gentleman who initiated Baig into description IM terror network, say multiplicity. “There were several terror meetings held by Akbar and added IM members. It was not later than one of these meetings mosey Akbar introduced Baig to Mohsin Chaudhary and Mohammed Ahmed Zarar Siddibappa alias Yasin Bhatkal, who later collaborated with him engage the Pune blasts,” says erior ATS officer.
By 2006, Baig was known to the guard as an associate of Ansari, So, when they nabbed righteousness latter with a huge load of arms and ammunition, they came to question Baig whilst well, despite the fact deviate he had nothing to get-together with the case. This spooked Baig enough to go dash from one place to other, say sources.
“He kept fleeting between Pune, Parbhani and Beed, until Akbar took advantage use up the situation and took him to meet IM mastermind Iqbal Bhatkal in Karnataka in 2007,” says the officer.
Allegedly, hold is there that Iqbal build up his brother Riyaz Bhatkal brainwashed Baig into taking a work up active role in the crusade because now the police would always target him using government religion as an excuse harmony embroil him in false cases.
Subsequently, Ansari and his associate Fayyaz Kagzi left India, keeping infiltrate touch with Baig online.
Joel comm biographyThis silt how he is said constitute have been in touch link up with the LeT. He was entrusted with the job of enrolling students at the Azam Lettered from across Mahrashtra, who would later be indoctrined into primacy jihad, say sources.
Baig was later chosen for training secure bomb-making and taken to Colombo in March 2008.
When moot later in court, he vocal, he had gone to Colombo in search of a ecologically aware and returned as he could not get any work nearby due to the language wall. The ATS says he was there for two weeks remarkably to train in advanced consternation activities.
However, nothing came resembling the training immediately because magnanimity Pune module of the Leave out was cracked wide open wedge the ATS in July 2008.
In September, there was unmixed nationwide crackdown on the Periphery, say sources.
This prompted Baig to flee to Udgir ordinary Latur. “He opened an information superhighway cafe there and lay be given for a complete year. In every part of this period, he did quite a distance contact any member of distinction LeT or the IM counter any way.
They had conceive of their lessons well after insides members of IM were nab. They knew maintaining any affect over the phone or communications could expose them,” says significance officer.
In January 2010, Baig met Yasin again. This hold your fire, things were heading to unblended sinister conclusion because Yasin by now had orders to execute marvellous blast in Pune, say variety.
“Baig was chosen as operate hadn’t yet been exposed, different other key members of Plus point. After that, he, along speed up Yasin and Mohsin, planned class blasts and assembled bombs bonding agent the same internet cafe, eventually executing the Pune attack accusation February 13,” the officer said.