To extract the information about sleeping module and other terror operation, sleuths of the Anti-Terrorists Squad (ATS) finally took 7-days police custody remand of Saleem Khan, a laskar-e-Taiba (leT) trained militant who also financed the espionage racket.
According to ATS officials, they took Saleem on police custody remand on Friday to extract that how many times, he procured Indian passports and on which addresses, how long he took militant training in Muzaffarabad in Pakistan, and whether any other Indians were also in the camp, in how many militant attacks he was involved, about his activities in Dubai, and lastly, which militant groups he was connected. The ATS will also try to extract about other sleeping modules active in the State.
It may be mentioned that Saleem Khan, who was said to be laskar-e-Taiba (leT) trained militant and had also financed the espionage racket was arrested in Mumbai on last Monday. ATS officials claimed that Saleem’s name first surfaced in the terror network when they were probing the terror attack in Rampur CRPF camp about a decade back. Name of Saleem Khan, a native of Fatehpur district, was first revealed in 2008 by Kaushar and Shairef, the two leT militant arrested by them in Rampur CRPF camp attack, IG ATS Aseem Arun disclosed adding that the leT Militants revealed that Saleem had undergone militant training with them in Mujaffarabad camp in Pakistan.