Sheikh Sajjad Gul
Credit: NIA
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala police as well as central intelligence agencies were learnt to have launched a probe into the suspected presence of Pahalgam terror strike mastermind Sheikh Sajjad Gul in Kerala.
Sources said that based on reports it could be inferred that Sajjad, who is the head of Lashkar-e-Taiba proxy The Resistance Front, could have undergone lab technician course in Kerala around the year 2000 - between his reported MBA studies in Bengaluru and his arrest in Delhi with explosives in 2002.
Based on that the intelligence agencies could be trying to find out his suspected presence in Kerala.
Mumbai terror strike conspirator Tahawwur Hussain Rana had reportedly visited Kochi in 2008. Several youths from Kerala had earlier joined terrorist outfits. Most of them were found to be radicalized through social media groups. Subsequently the intelligence agencies had enhanced vigil on social media and even launched a deradicalisation drive.
Meanwhile, the mystery over the death of a youth, suspected to be a native of Palakkad in Kerala, in Gulmarg in Jammu and Kashmir continues.
Police sources said that so far no suspicious background of the youth could be found. However, it remains unclear on how and why he reached Kashmir. Already the Jammu and Kashmir police as well as intelligence agencies were learnt to have launched a probe into his background and his mobile phone was also being examined.
Muhammed Shanib, 27, hailing from Mannarkad in Palakkad was suspected to be the one found dead in forest areas of Gulmarg in Jammu and Kashmir. His body was around ten days old and he was not in contact with family over the last three weeks. His father and another relative left for Kashmir to identify the body.