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LeT Kerala man Nasir used 7 SIMs, ‘stolen’ passport

Nasir Tadiyandavede, the main accused in the July 25, 2008 serial blasts in Bangalore that killed one woman and injured a dozen people, used a clutch of SIM cards procured with fake identities to plan and execute the terrorist attack, investigators have found. Nasir, 33, who is also accused in an alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba plot to send youths from Kerala to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) for terror training, was arrested in Bangladesh last month, and produced before a Bangalore magistrate on Saturday. Nasir and his brother-in-law Shafaz Shamsuddin were remanded in two weeks’ police custody. Both men had fled to Bangladesh in late November 2008, a month after Indian security forces in Jammu and Kashmir killed four youths from Kerala trying to cross over to PoK. Investigations have revealed that Nasir used as many as seven different SIM cards obtained with fake identities over a period of time. Investigators suspect Nasir was part of a fake passport and passport theft racket before venturing into terrorism.

                                                                                                               
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