Indian Police Check Yemeni Students Meeting
1- Many students abroad have recieved their scholarships as a result of nepotim.
2- Because of the corruption rampant at most Yemeni embassys, students funds are often embezzled.
3- In 2007, an alert was issued for Mumbai that jihaddi groups may have established contacts with senior al-Qaeda leaders in Yemen. It discusses the likelihood of soft targets being hit. A December 2006 alert for Goa was issued after Saudis discovered detailed planns of a terror attack on specific sites in Goa on a captured Yemeni’s computer.
Goa police to probe details of Yemeni students meet
9 Dec 2008, 1617 hrs IST, PTIPANAJI: A gathering of Yemeni youth on the beachfront dotting Panaji city have come under scanner of the state police who are inquiring into the details of the meet.
“We will inquire into the meeting, if at all it has taken place. We are already on our toes to verify the activities of Yemeni students in Goa,” deputy superintendent of Police Sammy Tavares told reporters here on Tuesday.
The police swung into action after a media report and a photograph on local Marathi daily “Goa Doot”, which raised the question mark on the meeting a day before Eid.
The media report carrying a picture of religious head addressing gathering on seashore contended that the meeting took place on the morning of December 8.
“We had no information about such meeting but still we are on our job to verify it,” Tavares said.
Superintendent of Police (CID) Atmaram Deshpande said that the meeting may be to offer prayer as in Arab countries Eid is celebrated a day in advance.
He said that the state police are on verification drive checking antecedents of all the foreign students. “Many of them don’t attend the classes so we have asked the institutions to give their detailed weekly attendance,” Deshpande, who is also tasked to form state’s special cell to counter probable terrorism activity, said.
The police have recommended that all the institutes imparting education to the foreign students should be recognised by the state education department.
“The collector will have right to cancel their licences, if they are found violating the guidelines issued by authorities,” he said.
