Gandhinagar: Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Gujarat Police today in its briefing today said total 9 persons have been arrested so far in Dhandhuka based Kishan Bharwad murder case.

ATS said the latest two persons arrested are Hussain Khatri and Matin Madan. Hussain is from Porbandar and he had provided assistance to Ahmedabad based Maulana Ayyub and Dhandhuka based murder accused Shabbir Chopra when they were out for preparations to kill Samat Odedara in Porbandar for his alleged blasphemous social media post. However Odedasa was in jail at that time and therefore the mission couldn’t succeed.

The other persons arrested in latest is Matin Madan who is from Dhandhuka. He had given shelter and Rs. 8,000 money to murder accused Shabbir after he murdered Kishan Bharwad.

ATS in its briefing said that 200 boxes of books written by accused Maulana Ayyub were found from his residence in Machhipith area of Jamalpur locality in Ahmedabad. The books were titled as Zazba e Shahadat (courage for martyrdom) and they were written by Maulana Ayyub himself in acidic language).

ATS said no links to Pakistan headquartered Islamic organization Dawat e Islami have been found in probe so far. The accused maulana Qamar Gani Usmani has maintained that his organization is TFI. Maulana has maintained that his organization only works for legal activism against blasphemy. Maualana has told investigators that his organization takes Re. 1 per day from the members and therefore Rs. 365 per year. The registration of TFI, associated bank accounts and details are under investigation. Phone talk with Dubai based number was detected in call details of Maulana. However Maulana has told police that the number belonged to his brother who stays in Dubai. Some communication are deleted by accused. The police is probing into these details.

ATS said, probe is on about his Surat and Vadodara visits and his linkages in Gujarat. There was no personal clash responsible for Kishan’s murder. There was no personal clash in Samat Odedara case in Porbandar also. The accused were into activity to spread terror and therefore they are booked under GUJCTOC.

ATS said, Maulana Qamar had visited Vadodara and Surat in Gujarat, and probe is underway regarding his linkages in the State. DeshGujarat

Arrests so far:

– Shabbir who shot at Kishan.

– Imtiyaz who was riding bike with Shabbir as pillion rider during the crime.

– Maulana Ayyub who gave pistol and 5 bullets to Shabbir for muder.

– Sama brothers for providing piston and bullets to Maulana Ayyub.

– Ramiz Seta who had given pistol and bullets to Sama brothers.

– Maulana Qamar Gani Usmani who was allegedly the part of conspiracy.

– Hussain Khatri who assisted Maulana Ayyub and Shabbir for plotting and planning another murder over alleged blasphemy in Porbandar.

– Matin Madan who gave shelter to Shabbir and also gave money to him after Kishan’s murder.