ATC monitoring activities of SIMI members in Auranbgabad

Aurangabad, Maharashtra, July 13 (UNI) Anti-Terrorist Cell (ATC) of the city police have been keeping a close watch on the movements of criminals on the police record, as well as members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) in the wake of the serial blasts in Mumbai's suburban trains on the Western route.

In the blasts, 190 people lost their lives and over 700 were injured on July 11.

Talking to reporters, City Police chief Uddhav Kamble said that they have set up the ATC, an eight-member squad, on the lines of the Mumbai Police's Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS).

''Our ATC has been doing its job, and we have initiated all necessary steps which need to be taken apart from our routine work following the serial blasts in Mumbai,'' Mr Kamble said.

He, however, denied that the the ATC or city police had conducted any raids in the city after the serial blasts in Mumbai.

On May nine, the ATS of Mumbai Police had busted a terrorist module, with the help of local police, at Ellora in this district and arrested three suspected terrorists including an activist of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). They had also seized eleven AK-47 rifles, 30 kg of deadly RDX and 800 bullets from a vehicle parked in front of Ghrushneshwar Temple at Verul village.

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