Know Black Beauty, planner of the Patna serial blasts

New Delhi: He used Black Beauty as his code name in internet chats and has a Masters in Psychology - this is the profile of a 24-year-old Indian Mujahideen man Haider Ali, who, according to investigators, was crucial in the planning and execution of Patna serial blasts. With Akhtar, Ali worked with the Darbhanga module, which is believed to have carried out most of the blasts that followed the Batla House encounter, before being asked to set up the Ranchi cell. He was living in Line Mohalla, Doranda in Ranchi and trained a group of eight men to make bombs and prepare for the blasts. Prior to the Patna serial blasts Tehsin met Haider and briefed him about the blasts. Tehsin alongwith Haider made bombs in Imtiyaz's house. Ali, also known as Abdullah, hails from Aurangabad in Bihar but moved to Darbhanga in 2010 where the then IM chief Yasin Bhatkal was setting up a module. Investigators say that though Imtiaz was the main man on the ground, the Patna attack was designed by Tehseen Akhtar, who has allegedly been running the Indian Mujahideen since the reported founder, Yasin Bhatkal, was arrested in Bihar last month. Haider, whose father lives in Ranchi, has a Master's in Psychology and was among the men who planted a series of bombs in the pilgrimage town of Bodh Gaya in Bihar in July. The NIA has been looking for Ali since 2012 when his name surfaced during investigations into the Darbhanga module of the IM. Ali used to frequently visit Imtyaz's house and stayed there numerous time. Investigators believe that Tehseen Akhtar was in touch online with Haider Ali who used the code name "black beauty" in their internet chats.