17 Facts About Yasin Bhatkal

The jihadist group has carried out several attacks against civilian targets in India and Yasin was notably personally involved in the 2010 Pune bombing, 2010 Bangalore stadium bombing, 2011 Mumbai bombings, 2012 Pune bombings and the 2013 Hyderabad blasts.

Yasin Bhatkal is believed to have taken arms and explosives training at a terrorist training camp in Pakistan.

Yasin Bhatkal has been sentenced to death by a National Investigation Agency special court in Hyderabad on 19 December 2016 for his involvement in the 2013 Hyderabad blasts and is currently incarcerated at the Tihar Jail in Delhi.

Yasin Bhatkal studied until the 10th grade at the Anjuman Hami-e-Muslimeen in Bhatkal, Karnataka.

Yasin Bhatkal told her that he was Imran hailing from Lucknow.

Yasin Bhatkal became the operational head of Indian Mujahideen when Riyaz and Iqbal Bhatkal fled post the Batla House encounter in 2008.

Yasin Bhatkal set up a bomb manufacturing facility in Delhi which were later used in the Delhi bombings, he had been detained for theft in 2009 in Kolkata but was let off after cops could not identify him.

Yasin Bhatkal founded a terror module of the Indian Mujahideen in Darbhanga, Bihar and another in Ranchi, Jharkhand.

Yasin Bhatkal is accused of direct involvement in over 10 separate bombings in India.

Yasin Bhatkal is suspected to have played an active role in the 2006 Mumbai train bombings.

Yasin Bhatkal was caught on CCTV while carrying out the 2012 Pune bombing and the 2013 Hyderabad blasts.

The arrest of Yasin Bhatkal was seen as a major breakthrough in the law enforcement agencies protracted efforts against the Indian Mujahideen.

On 31 August 2013, during initial police interrogation, Yasin Bhatkal admitted to recruiting young men from Bihar for terror attacks across the country.

Yasin Bhatkal admitted his involvement in carrying out the 2011 Mumbai bombings, stating that he was the mastermind behind the blasts and is unremorseful.

Yasin Bhatkal is currently lodged at the Tihar Jail in Delhi.

Indian intelligence sources claim that Yasin Bhatkal entered Pakistan in early 2006 on a regular commercial flight from Dubai even though he did not have a visa and was whisked away from the aircraft by his contacts to avoid immigration checks.

Yasin Bhatkal has told interrogators that he spent about 50 days in Pakistan undergoing training to launch terror attacks and returned to Dubai in the same manner after his hosts stamped his passport with fake immigration stamps to show that he had entered and exited India.