Following the arrest of four operatives of ISIS from landhaura area of Roorkee on Tuesday, the bank accounts of their acquaintances have come under IB’s scanner. Some more arrests are likely to be made on the basis of information received from the bank accounts say the sources. Any transaction of sizeable amount in the past few months by any of the accused or their kins might reveal some more links.
As per the sources, the intelligence agencies are on the lookout of the bank accounts of the accused in custody. Two of these, Mehraz and Azimussan were brought to Roorkee on Friday while in custody remand. The intelligence bureau team is still in Roorkee. On Saturday the team inspected Kaliyar area of Roorkee. It is being said that Intelligence Bureau team is in search of one Mohsin who used to provide money to Akhlaq, the key ISIS operator. Even the shopkeepers of the area are being interrogated by the police from where these operatives brought match boxes in huge quantity. The inflammable powder used in match sticks was collected by these operatives for allegedly making bomb.
According to the Police, the funder assisting Akhlaq, Mehraz, Azimussan and Osama is a resident of Muzaffarnagar, Mohsin who stayed in a rented house in Kishenpur near Roorkee. He also passed a few days earlier in annual Urs festival held at Piran Kaliyar. Police is secretly conducting raids in different parts of the district to collect more data and information related to the means used by the terrorists to perform operations, though no police official is openly announcing anything.
In lieu of security at city post office, no transaction shall be made by parcel department till the end of the Mela, ending April 30. Speaking to The Pioneer, Mela officer Railways Y P Tripathi said, “To avert any incident, it has been decided that no parcel delivery shall be made during the Mela period. No parcel shall be sent or received till further orders by April 30.”
Meanwhile, the railway station department has barred the entry of vehicles inside the station premises for parking purposes. Two wheeler and four wheelers parking facility was existing before but after the revelation that Haridwar railway was the prime target of the terrorists, the station authorities have taken this decision.
Speaking to The Pioneer, station superintendent A K Singh said, “No vehicle shall be allowed to park inside the railway station till February 15. This ban has been imposed on account of safety reasons.”