Overview
- ATS teams searched residences tied to teacher Ibrahim Abidi in Mumbra’s Kausa and Mumbai’s Kurla as part of an expanding counter-terror investigation.
- Officers seized multiple phones, computers and hard drives for forensic analysis to check for links to Al‑Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent.
- Abidi was questioned and allowed to leave, with officials stating he is not named as an accused or even a witness at this stage.
- The action follows the October 27 arrest of Pune software engineer Zubair Hangargekar, from whose devices ATS reported recovering AQIS PDFs, an Urdu translation of an Osama bin Laden speech, Inspire magazine, and IED-making material.
- Investigators say Hangargekar visited Abidi’s Mumbra home for a meeting; a UAPA case is registered in the wider probe, which officials stress is not linked to the recent Delhi car blast.