<p>Five terrorists belonging to banned SIMI, who have escaped from a jail in Madhya Pradesh, have emerged as a major security challenge to the country and Home Minister Rajnath Singh asked Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to take urgent steps to apprehend them.</p>.<p><br />In a letter to Chouhan, Singh said that five under-trial militants of SIMI escaped from the state's Khandwa jail on October 1, 2013 but even after "a lapse of more than a year", the terrorists are yet to be arrested.<br /><br />Singh said there are reasons to believe that this group of escaped SIMI terrorists has carried out bomb blasts and committed other crimes in different parts of the country.<br /><br />"In fact, this group has emerged as a major security challenge to the country and has managed to successfully to evade arrest by the law enforcement agencies of different states," he wrote.<br />The Home Minister told the Chief Minister that the SIMI terrorists belong to Madhya Pradesh and hence the state police have the primary responsibility to bring back them.<br /><br />Based on the inputs provided by the central intelligence agencies, all states have also been asked to look for the five SIMI members - Mohammad Aijajudden, Mohammad Aslam, Amjad Khan, Zakir Hussain Sadiq and Mehboob Guddu, official sources said.<br /><br />The last known locations of at least two fugitives happened to be in Karnataka.<br />The five, along with Faisal, the leader of the gang, and another prisoner, had made an audacious escape from the district jail in Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh after scaling a 14-foot wall.</p>.<p><br />While the seventh prisoner surrendered the next day and Faisal was caught in December 2013 from Barwani in Madhya Pradesh, the five accused are still at large.</p>
<p>Five terrorists belonging to banned SIMI, who have escaped from a jail in Madhya Pradesh, have emerged as a major security challenge to the country and Home Minister Rajnath Singh asked Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to take urgent steps to apprehend them.</p>.<p><br />In a letter to Chouhan, Singh said that five under-trial militants of SIMI escaped from the state's Khandwa jail on October 1, 2013 but even after "a lapse of more than a year", the terrorists are yet to be arrested.<br /><br />Singh said there are reasons to believe that this group of escaped SIMI terrorists has carried out bomb blasts and committed other crimes in different parts of the country.<br /><br />"In fact, this group has emerged as a major security challenge to the country and has managed to successfully to evade arrest by the law enforcement agencies of different states," he wrote.<br />The Home Minister told the Chief Minister that the SIMI terrorists belong to Madhya Pradesh and hence the state police have the primary responsibility to bring back them.<br /><br />Based on the inputs provided by the central intelligence agencies, all states have also been asked to look for the five SIMI members - Mohammad Aijajudden, Mohammad Aslam, Amjad Khan, Zakir Hussain Sadiq and Mehboob Guddu, official sources said.<br /><br />The last known locations of at least two fugitives happened to be in Karnataka.<br />The five, along with Faisal, the leader of the gang, and another prisoner, had made an audacious escape from the district jail in Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh after scaling a 14-foot wall.</p>.<p><br />While the seventh prisoner surrendered the next day and Faisal was caught in December 2013 from Barwani in Madhya Pradesh, the five accused are still at large.</p>