The terror suspects, arrested by ATS, admitted before interrogators that they were in the process of recruiting youths for Jaish-e-Mohammed. Their 10-day-long police custody remand ended on Tuesday after which they were sent to jail. Both the terror suspects, Shahnawaz Hasan Teli of Kulgam in Jammu and Kashmir and Aquib Ahmad Malik of Pulwama, were arrested by Anti-Terror Squad from a madarsa in Deoband in Saharanpur district on February 22 night. Both were staying in the madarsa hostel without enrolment and the police had recovered arms, chats suggesting jihad mission, videos, photographs and other objectionable items.
On the next day, the ATS presented both in a court in Saharanpur and got transit remand. Later, they were presented before the special CJM court in Lucknow, who had granted permission to ATS to take the suspects on PCR. The suspects owned that they were in contact with dreaded terrorists working for Jaish-e-Mohammed and Hizbul. They provided the interrogators the virtual number being used by terrorists and the ATS was doing a technical examination of the same. They provided evidence of the visit of a senior officer-bearers of Jaish-e-Mohammed to them and his visit to other places in UP. The interrogators extracted the data of BBM chat and WhatsApp GB chat during the PCR too. The interrogators succeeded in getting names of the some suspects and plans to interrogate them in the time to come.