PANJIM: Terror suspect Sameer Sardana claimed that Goa Police’s Anti Terrorist Squad tried to project him as a terrorist with the help of the media and alleged that the investigation against him was biased and ridden with loopholes.
Sardana, currently out on bail, in a communication to Herald claimed ATS perpetrated lies about him. Right from their inability to open his laptop, which he claims is not password protected, to statements that he had visited Islamic countries, the investigation was trying to frame him, he claimed.
“The ATS has no evidence or gossip to link me to any group, anywhere in the world. It would be beneath idiotic to link me to blasts in India. Even bestiality involves more creativity,” Sardana said.
“I am not a member of any organization in the world except, perhaps a casino/travel class or a massage enterprise,” he commented.
The 44-year-old management consultant rubbished the police statements that he was not cooperating with them and was not giving them his laptop password. “My laptop has no password. You start the laptop and it moves straight to the hard drive’s information,” he said.
Admitting that he was carrying 23 SIM cards, Sardana said only one SIM had a Pakistani number and that too was a reused card. “Some of the SIMs are unused for more than five years. I keep them to prevent misuse and as a store of contacts. I kept a meticulous record of the old unusable SIMs because I have nothing to hide.”
“Prepaid SIM cards in East-Asia have limited life hence if you visit a nation five times in a span of a year you will end up using five SIMs due to new schemes and redundancy,” Sardana said.
He said his emails are hacked regularly and he has filed police complaints in several countries related to the same. “I am forced to open new mail IDs. I have kept a meticulous record of the old email IDs. The ATS did not crack it, they were there in my records,” he said.
He stated that he wants to settle in an Islamic country. “I have never set my foot in an Islamic country or in any other nation that follows the shariat. However, that region of the world is probably where I will settle down,” Sardana said.
