MP police team will visit UP to nab absconding SIMI activists

A Madhya Pradesh police team will visit Uttar Pradesh in the wake of alleged involvement of five SIMI activists, who escaped from a jail in Madhya Pradesh, in an explosion at a house in Bijnore while making bombs.
The SIMI activists had escaped from Khandwa jail in Madhya Pradesh on October 1, 2013.
"We will send a team to Bijnore in Uttar Pradesh in view of suspected hand of the absconding SIMI activists in making bombs during which explosion took place," Home Minister Babulal Gaur told reporters here.
The team will try to arrest these activists after the probe, he said.

Madhya Pradesh Police is on hunt for the SIMI activists identified as Aslam, Amzad, Zakir, Mehboob and Aizazuddin who escaped from Khandwa jail.
Meanwhile, Gaur also visited the Central jail where an under trial in murder case, Arjun Tyagi (35) was shot dead by another prisoner, Jeetu (27) on September 4. Jeetu was immediately arrested after the incident.

The Home Minister informed that police has also arrested the key conspirator in the murder case.
To a query, Gaur said the government has already suspended five jail employees in this regard and action would be taken against others also if their involvement is proved.

He said that at present, three times more prisoners are lodged in the jail than its total capacity and number of security personnel will be increased to beef up security around the jail.