Shaheen Shahid, the woman arrested in the Red Fort blast case and a key member of the terror module obtained a new PAN card in Faridabad, reported Zee News, citing sources.
This has made tracking her financial whereabouts difficult for the investigating agencies. Shaheen worked in Saudi Arabia for four years and applied for a new PAN card upon return. All her bank accounts and investments have now become difficult to track as there is very little information after the new PAN card was issued. Notably, she also applied for the renewal of her passport in Delhi six months back.
Shaheen Planned Recruitment Command Centre
Recently during investigation it came to light that Shaheen was trying to set up a recruiting command centre in Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur in the garb of an NGO. She even contacted a few other NGOs for funding her organisation that supposedly would have provided free education to the poor Muslim children and medical care.
The preparation to set up the NGO was going on for the last six months. According to Zee News that cited ATS sources, the building would have had ten large size rooms and a basement for which an appropriate size land was being looked into.
According to the report, social media would have been banned for the women recruits so that they did not have access to it and thus remain focused on ‘jihad’. A jammer was also planned to be installed in the building for this.
The recruiters disguised as religious teachers were supposed to give lectures and instill radicalism and train the women in jihad. The women seeking training in Shaheen’s NGO would have been given the name Muntajim.
The building other than having a medicine shop and school for Muslim girls would also have hostel accommodation so that the recruits could be trained comfortably.
In fact, these recruits themselves would have worked in the medicine shop and taught the students enrolled in the campus school.
Rs 20 lakh collected by Shaheen to carry out Red Fort blast
Notably, Shaheen had collected Rs 20 lakh through crowd funding to prepare explosives for the blast.
According to UP ATS, Shaheen has played a vital role in carrying out the blast. She was entrusted with the responsibility of financing the terror module.
The ATS is now trying to track those people who facilitated the digital transfers and who made those contributions.