The Special Cell - the anti-terrorist unit of the Delhi Police - arrested a 28-year-old man with suspected ISIS links from Inter State Bus Terminus (ISBT) near Kashmiri Gate. This is the fifth arrest made by the Special Cell in connection with a module of the terror outfit it had claimed to have busted last month.
“The accused, Ibrahim Sayyed, was arrested last night (Thursday night) based on a tip-off from a central intelligence agency. Sayyed is a muezzin at Malad in Mumbai. He had come to Delhi to meet an associate,” said Special Commissioner of Police (Special CP) Arvind Deep.
Sayeed, who is believed to be self-radicalised, was acting as a financier and had given Rs 50,000 to the four persons who were arrested from Haridwar last month. All of them were found to have links with a former Indian Mujahideen militant who later went to fight for ISIS.
“He (Sayyed) was in touch particularly with Akhlaq, one of the four persons arrested last month,” Deep said. Meanwhile, police are checking his background record and a special cell team is trying to track down his contacts in the national Capital. The Delhi Police had last month arrested four persons with suspected ISIS links from Manglour in Uttarakhand and claimed to have unearthed a terror plot to target the Ardh Kumbh Mela at Haridwar, especially the trains headed there, along with some strategic locations in the national capital.
The suspects were identified as Akhlaq ur-Rehman, Mohammed Osama, Mohammed Azim Shah and Mehroz.