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Lucknow: The Anti-Terrorism Squad of the Uttar Pradesh Police has intensifies crackdown against terrorism and arrested four people allegedly linked to the Aligarh module of ISIS, it said on Saturday.
UP ATS has claimed that anti-national agenda was being run in the meeting of the student organization named Students of Aligarh Muslim University (SAMU). It is alleged that suspected terrorists connected with each other in the SAMU meeting and were being recruited into ISIS through this. According to sources, this organization is also on the radar of central agencies.
UP ATS has arrested 4 suspected terrorists from different areas of Uttar Pradesh on the Aligarh module of ISIS. Their names are Rakib Imam Ansari, a 29-year-old BTech and MTech graduate from Aligarh Muslim University from Aligarh was nabbed, a press release said. The ATS apprehended Naved Siddiqui (23), who was pursuing BSc from Aligarh Muslim University; Mohd Noman (27), a BA (Honours) from the university; and 23-year-old Mohd Nazim, a graduate; from Sambhal on Saturday.
Forbidden ISIS literature, mobile phones and pen drives were confiscated from the arrested accused, the ATS added. The accused were allegedly linked to the banned terror outfit ISIS and working to overthrow the elected government through “violent terror jihad” and establish ‘Sharia’. The accused were distributing ISIS-related literature for the purpose among like-minded people and associating them with the terror group, the release stated.
They were mentally and physically preparing people for “terror jihad” through online platforms and were making conspiring to carry out a massive action in the state and the country, it added. The four accused came in contact with each other during meetings of the Students of Aligarh Muslim University — a students’ union — and were trying to connect new people with ISIS under its garb.
Earlier this month, Additional Director General of Police (ATS) Mohit Aggarwal said the unit had received a tip-off that some radicalised people, influenced by ISIS, were involved in anti-national activities and forming a jihadi group of like-minded people on the directives of their handlers. They were planning to carry out a major attack in Uttar Pradesh, he had said.
The police later detained Abdullah Arsalan, Maaz bin Tariq and Waziudin, who were also allegedly linked to ISIS. Information about the four accused arrested on Friday and Saturday was received while interrogating the trio. Action is being taken against the four arrested accused after presenting them in court, the release stated.
