The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of India’s most populous relate, Uttar Pradesh, on Saturday (Nov 11) conducted raids on quite loads of locations and arrested four americans suspected of having links to ISIS.
The four suspects indulge in been acknowledged as Raquib Imam Ansari (29), Naved Siddiqui (23), Mohammed Noman Gaffar (27) and Mohammed Nazim (33).
The raids were conducted based fully totally on the inputs from ISIS suspects earlier arrested by the ATS personnel. The ATS detained three of the four suspects from Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh whereas one used to be detained from Sambhal.
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Per a senior ATS legitimate cited by Instances of India, all four were linked with college students of Aligarh Muslim College (AMU). Cellphones and pen drives were seized from the accused, which allegedly had ISIS literature.
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A dispute by the ATS stated, “The accused were allegedly linked to the banned fright outfit ISIS and working to overthrow the elected govt by means of “violent fright jihad” and build ‘Sharia’. The accused were distributing ISIS-linked literature for the purpose among like-minded americans and associating them with the alarm neighborhood.”
The commence added that these accused were allegedly planning to establish “fright jihad” in the relate by means of online platforms and were mentally and physically preparing for the equal.
As of now, seven individuals of the ISIS module indulge in been arrested from the relate, in the month of Diwali, the excellent competition for Hindus.
Earlier on November 8, UP ATS had arrested a suspected terrorist beneath the provisions of the Unlawful Actions Prevention Act (UAPA) from Chhattisgarh’s Durg district, the police stated.
“UP ATS personnel had near here the old day morning. For the arrest, they had requested for cooperation from us. They’ve arrested an accused. They’ve taken him on transit remand. It be a case of the UAPA (Unlawful Actions Prevention Act),” Abhishek Jha, Additional Superintendent of Police, Durg stated.
As per the Durg Police, Wajihuddin used to be an brisk member of ISIS and has been pursuing Ph.D. from AMU whereas staying in the SBI Colony in Durg.
(With inputs from agencies)
