In a letter to Chouhan, Singh said that five under-trial militants of SIMI escaped from the state's Khandwa jail on October 1, 2013 but even after "a lapse of more than a year", the terrorists are yet to be arrested.
Singh said there are reasons to believe that this group of escaped SIMI terrorists has carried out bomb blasts and committed other crimes in different parts of the country.
The Home Minister told the Chief Minister that the SIMI terrorists belong to Madhya Pradesh and hence the state police have the primary responsibility to bring back them.
Based on the inputs provided by the central intelligence agencies, all states have also been asked to look for the five SIMI members - Mohammad Aijajudden, Mohammad Aslam, Amjad Khan, Zakir Hussain Sadiq and Mehboob Guddu, official sources said.
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