Indore, India: March 27, 2008 – The Mumbai police in a major drive against outlawed Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), 13 top leaders including one wanted terrorist were arrested along with their huge arsenal of weapons.

 Madhya Pradesh Police along with central security agencies arrested a top brass of the outfit. Among the prominent SIMI leaders arrested were Shibly Peedicaal Abdul, wanted in connection with Mumbai train serial blasts of July 2006, former SIMI Chief Safdar Nagori and his brother Kamruddin Nagori, chief of the outfit's operations in Andhra Pradesh, and Hafiz of Karnataka .

Police sources said intelligence agencies had been keeping a tab on their movement for quite sometime before they were arrested.

Shibly is considered a prize catch as he is alleged to be part of the conclave which had met in Ujjain ahead of the Mumbai serial blasts that left over 180 people dead and hundred others injured on July 11, 2006, as per PTI.
 
Police also recovered weapons, money and very vital documents from them. Some of the activists were arrested from Pithampur in Dhar district, a few km away from an army range.

Describing the operation as a "big achievement" for the police, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said in Bhopal that "weapons and computers have been found...from arrested persons. Investigations are on into SIMI's plans to expand its network in the state".

Karnataka DGP K Srinivas told PTI over phone from Bangalore that a team of policemen has been despatched to Indore to interrogate Shibly.

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