Pak terrorist's kins charged for violating Foreigners' Act

Kozhikode, Oct 30: Tightening dragnet for Pakistani terrorist links in the city, police have registered a case against relatives of an arrested al-Badr mastermind for violating Foreigners' Act.

Medical College Police today said a case had been registered against Fathima Begum, the cousin of Muhammed Fahad, who had drawn up a plan to blow up Karnataka Vidhan Sabha, and her relatives for giving unlawful accommodation to the Pakistani national.

Investigation had revealed that the family accommodated Fahad at their residence at Peruvayal in the district, even after expiry of his 45-day visit visa, without informing the authorities, it said.

As per the existing law the authorities should have been informed immediately about the overstaying of a person in the country.

Police had conducted raids at the residences of relatives of Fahad, whose father Abdulla Koya, a native of Peruval in the district had migrated to Pakistan in 1971, and in various parts of the district and in Malappuram during the past few days.

Eleven letters, written in Urdu received from Pakistan, were seized from the residence of Fahad's step mother at Kappad on October 28.

Fahad and another Pakistani terrorist Mohd Ali Hussain, who had planned to blow up the Sabha buildings, were nabbed with sophisticated weapons at Mysore on October 28.

UNI