About 50 policemen stormed the house of Riazuddin Nasir in Hyderabad last evening to investigate last month's terror attacks in Bangalore, Surat and Ahmedabad.

Nasir was picked up earlier this year by the Karnataka police on the suspicion that he had planned terror strikes in Karnataka and Goa.

Nasir's uncle Rafiuddin told MiD DAY that the police team raided the house around 5.30 pm when Nasir's mother Tasneem and sister-in-law were present.

Tasneem (70) said the police forcibly opened all cupboards and conducted a random check. They took away a computer hard disk and a cell phone. She suspects the police have whisked away her youngest son.

She told MiD DAY the police had been harassing her family for 15 years, but this was the worst she had seen.

She has lodged two complaints with the Saidabad police: one about her missing son, and another about police high-handedness.

Nasir's younger brother Jabir, a third year civil engineering student, had stopped studying since all earning members in his family were pushed behind bars.

He also stopped going to the family's auto workshop as the police would stand around and made it difficult for him to work.

On hearing the news, crowds gathered outside the house to express support for the family. "The police locked our neighbours' houses to prevent them from coming to our rescue," Tasneem said.

Family behind bars

>>Mohammed  Nasir, son of Moulana Naseeruddin was arrested by Honnalli police in January this year. He was caught when he was riding a stolen motorbike.
>>Naseeruddin and his two other sons are behind bars in connection with an alleged murder conspiracy.
>>Police say Nasir has been trained in Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. He had allegedly planned serial blasts in Goa and Karnataka and wanted to blow up the Hyderabad police headquarters.