Suspected Jaish members sent to 10 days police custody

New Delhi, May 4

Three suspected members of terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed, arrested for allegedly planning an attack in the national capital, were on Wednesday remanded to 10-day police custody by a court as the investigators said their custodial interrogation was needed to crack their Delhi module.

"The accused persons are sent to police custody till May 14," the court said.

During the proceedings, police told Additional Sessions Judge Reetesh Singh that Mohd. Sajid was arrested and Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was recovered from him, adding that his hand was also burned while making explosives.

The agency while seeking 15-day custody told the court that the two other accused Shakir and Sameer were later arrested and some literature related to the terror organisation were recovered from them.

The three were arrested here last night for planning terror strikes in different parts of the national capital.

Their movement was being continuously monitored by the central intelligence agencies and special cell of the Delhi Police for the last one year, sources said, adding the trio had got indoctrinated through the Internet.

While Sajid and Sameer hail from Delhi, Ansari is a resident of Deoband in Uttar Pradesh.

The three had been learning to put together IEDs over the past fortnight and last night Sajjid, the alleged kingpin of the group, got injured while making the explosive device.

His left hand was damaged when it went off accidentally, prompting the police to swing into action and arrest them.

According to the sources, the three had an ideological leaning towards the banned Jaish-e-Mohammed terror group headed by Maulana Masood Azhar, who is wanted by India in connection with 2001 Parliament attack case and the terror strike on Pathankot IAF base in January this year.

Besides arresting these three, police and other security agencies have detained nearly a dozen people for questioning, the sources said. — PTI