Images of Chabad House recovered from terror suspects held in Pune: ATS

The Maharashtra ATS has recovered images of Chabad House one of the 2611 terror attack sites in south Mumbai from the electronic devices of the two terror suspects arrested earlier this month in Pune a senior official said on SundayThe agency also recovered an electronic circuit used in making explosives from the rented flat of the terror suspects in Punes Kondhwa area along with 500 GB data from the devices he saidThe two suspects Mohammad Imran Mohammad Yunus Khan 23 and Mohammad Yunus Mohammad Yakub Saki 24 wanted by the National Investigation Agency for their alleged involvement in a terrorrelated case in Rajasthan were nabbed from Kothrud area in Pune on July 18The state Anti Terrorism Squad ATS later took over the probe into the case from the Pune policeWe have found some images of Chabad House in Mumbai from the electronic devices of the two terror suspects Besides that the screenshots of Google map locations from various districts have also been recovered the senior ATS official said in response to a query by reportersChabad institutions part of the Chabad Lubavitch movement are community centres that mainly cater to Israelis and Jews across the world Nariman House renamed Chabad House was under siege during the 2008 Mumbai terror attacksDuring the 2611 attacks Pakistani terrorists killed rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka Holtzberg besides four visitors at the Chabad House Twoyearold son of the rabbi baby Moshe survived after being rescued by his Indian nanny Sandra SamuelThe ATS official further said We have found a drone camera from the house of the two terror suspects and also recovered an electronic circuit which is used in making an explosiveWhat exactly they were planning to do is not clear yet We have recovered nearly 500 GB data from their devices This data has been sent to the forensic department he saidThe terror suspects used the drone for shooting videosimages but it is not yet clear which location they captured using it he saidWhich locations they shot using the drone will be clear only after the forensic report We have not received the drone footage as it has been sent for forensic analysis the official addedThe police earlier said that they had recovered a tent from the duoWhen asked about it the ATS official said The two suspects avoided living in hotels whenever they went to conduct recce as they used the tent They had visited many places in the stateThe accused are hardcore terroristsThey were influenced by watching the videos of some individuals and reading booksThey have been trying to evade many questions during their questioning he addedThe accused accompanying them who managed to run away at the time of their arrest is also a hardcore terrorist he saidMultiple teams have been deployed to nab him he addedDays after the arrest of the two suspects the ATS on Wednesday arrested a man named Abdul Qadir Dastgir Pathan in Pune for providing shelter to the duo It has also arrested a man from Ratnagiri district for providing financial aid to themAll of them have been remanded in ATS custody till August 5The two arrested terror suspects Khan and Saki hail from Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh and are graphic designers Both carried a bounty of Rs 5 lakh each police saidThey fled Ratlam after learning that their names had cropped up in an investigation into a terror case in which some suspected members of the AlSufa outfit were apprehended by the Rajasthan police from the MP town they saidThey reached Mumbai where they stayed in the Bhendi Bazaar area for two to three days and then came to Punes Kondhwa area The duo took up jobs with the help of a local resident sources said earlierThey befriended a third person a resident of Jharkhand who managed to escape when the police nabbed the duo they saidIn Kondhwa the two happened to meet Qadir and told him that they had come to Pune in search of jobs as their financial condition was weak the sources addedQadir who himself was involved in graphic designing work provided them jobs and sublet the place he had taken on rent they saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever