The Mumbai crime branch’s investigation into the radicalisation case has revealed an exhaustive list of text messages Salafi preacher Mohammad Haneef had exchanged with several people within and outside India in the past one year. Investigators said a series of text messages were sent and received from two of Haneef’s mobile phones to numbers in India and Middle Eastern countries. Read: ISIS case: Haneef received several calls from Kuwait and DubaiThe discoveries were made by the state Forensic Sciences Laboratory (FSL), which revealed in its report the details of the text messages and phone calls made and received by Haneef. Officials said messages were also exchanged between Haneef, Arshi Qureshi, who had been employed with Zakir Naik’s non-profit Islamic Research Foundation and Rizwan Khan, a Kalyan-based maulavi. The police will first get the text messages translated and after clarifying what has been written, they will seek custody of the trio to interrogate them.

Source: Hindustan Times September 17, 2016 19:07 UTC