10 held for IS link, one from Jalandhar

Prateek Chauhan

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, April 20 

Nine police teams of five states have arrested four suspected terrorists belonging to the ISIS Khorasan module for plotting a strike and detained six more. They were looking for potential recruits in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, an officer with the Delhi Police special cell said.

Raids were jointly carried out this morning in Mumbai, Jalandhar, Narkatiaganj (Bihar), Bijnor and Muzaffarnagar by the Anti-Terrorist Squads of UP and Maharashtra and the police teams of Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and Bihar. Aseem Arun, IG, ATS, Uttar Pradesh, said three persons, all in the age group of 18-25, were arrested for conspiring to launch terror strikes. Mufti Faizan and Tanveer were arrested from Bijnor district. Nazim Shamshad Ahmed (26), who hails from Bijnor, was nabbed from Mumbra township adjoining Mumbai and Muzammil was apprehended from Jalandhar district. Also, six persons were being questioned. They would be produced in a Noida court where the ATS would seek their transit remand. 

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“We have recovered documents related to ISIS from them. The accused met on the internet and had been coordinating through the same”. The IG said important papers were seized after the March 7 encounter in Lucknow in which a “terrorist” belonging to the Khorasan module was killed.

The ATS had inputs that ISIS was expanding network in UP, Mumbai, Punjab and Bihar. One of them was helping the group with finances. A report from Jalandhar said 22-year-old Mazammil alias Gazi Baba had been residing in the city for the past couple of years. A tailor by profession, he had come to Jalandhar with his father from Unnao in UP. He lived in a rented room and seldom spoke to neighbours.