What the Doctor Ordered Continues ……….

The year was 1989. Dr Ansari’s campaign against the majority community and the establishment in general came to a head after December 1992, when the Babri Masjid was demolished.

Sensing the strong anti-Hindu feeling amongst the Muslims, Ahl-e- Hadees members collected arms, ammunition and explosives in ample quantities to give further impetus to their campaign.

After targeting the gurdwaras, Ansari’s team targeted several police station premises in Mumbai, the Shiv Sena office and the election office of Dr Datta Samant (a prominent labour leader).

A few explosions caused fatalities, but the group eluded law enforcement agencies and the intelligence fraternity of the country. By then prosperous Muslim benefactors had begun to come forward to finance the criminal activities of the doctor and his team.


During this period, Ansari met one Ashfaque Khan at the office of a close relative. Ashfaque was a mining contractor in Dausa, Rajasthan, and he and Ansari hit it off well. Ashfaque took it upon himself to divert explosive material from government supplies given to him for mining work.

The doctor went to Dausa, where he received enough explosive material from Ashfaque to keep him in business for a long time.


By the middle of 1993, Dr Ansari’s team was going from strength to strength. The terror module was planting bombs further afield from Mumbai in places such as Hyderabad and Gulbarga in Karnataka. Thanks to Tunda, Dr Ansari’s circle of associates had assumed a pan-Indian character. Tunda had introduced him to prominent Ahl-e-Hadees members such as Dr Habib of Rae Bareli and Dr Jamal Alvi of Lucknow.

In August 1993, the leading lights of Ahl-e-Hadees met at Dr Alvi’s residence in Lucknow. It was decided to step up the activities of the group and call it ‘Crush India Force’. Another meeting was held in September 1993, again in Lucknow, during which it was decided to undertake dramatic action on the first anniversary of the demolition of Babri Masjid.

To be Continued ………….