Suspected operative of Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) Abdur Rehman, who was brought to Odisha for interrogation over his alleged links with the terrorist outfit, was on Wednesday taken to Delhi after his remand period came to an end.
A team of the Delhi police produced Rehman at the Salepur Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) Court before taking him to the Cuttack railway station. He would be produced before the Tis Hazari Court in New Delhi and then sent to the Tihar Jail, sources said.
Notably, the State Crime Branch had brought Rehman from Delhi on June 21. The Salepur JMFC Court had allowed the investigating agency to take Rehman on a 10-day remand. The Crime Branch later took him on another phase of remand for seven days.
The 37-year-old Rehman, a resident of Paschimkachha in Cuttack district, was arrested by the Delhi police onDecember 16 last on the charges of radicalising youths for terror activities. later, he was booked under provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
Rehman, who ran a madrasa at Tangi area near Cuttack, had links with a man involved in a failed car bomb attack at the Glasgow international airport in 2007, Odisha police had alleged.