Sleuths of the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh, got 7-days police custody remand of Ramesh Shah, the kingpin of the gang which the ATS unearthed in Gorakhpur few days back in connection with terror funding. According to official communiqué, Shah(28), arrested in Pune on last Tuesday was brought here in lucknow and produced before a local court on Friday. On request of ATS, the court sanctioned 7 days police custody remand of Shah. ATS claimed that besides trying to extract information about his Pakistan based handlers, they will try to get names of his other cohorts as well as how money has been forwarded by him to terror outfits and that whether any sleeping module is active in the State and he helped it monetary. It may be mentioned that on Thursday, ATS officials claimed the team trailing behind the kingpin Shah for the past three months get success when they traced his whereabouts in Pune. Subsequently they rushed and sought help from the local Maharastra police and finally held the accused on Tuesday. Shah was later produced in a local court from where they sought his transit remand to bring him here in lucknow. Ramesh was the kingpin of the gang involved in distributing money to the terrorists after being received in his bank account from foreign handler particularly from Pakistan. Earlier on March 24, UP ATS had arrested ten persons including half a dozen accomplices of Shah namely— Mukesh Prasad, Nikhil Rai alias Mushraff Ansari, Ankur Rai, Dayanand Yadav, Naseem Ahmed and Naim Arshad. Shah, who owns a shopping mart in Gorakhpur city was in direct touch with the foreign handlers and used to get information about the money transfer through internet calling. He so far facilitated over Rs 1 crore funding in terror operations. It was also reported that Shah was behind supplying money in Kashmir, Kerala, North East and other parts of the country to the terror outfits. The arrested members were also having link with lashker-e-Taiba.