Sleuths of the Anti-Terrorists Squad (ATS) claimed to have arrested a conduit of a militant group hailing from Kashmir. The accused was held from lohia Path here on Monday morning. The ATS team, who interrogated the accused for several hours claimed that they will now take him on police custody remand to grill him further and extract more information about the militant activity here in Uttar Pradesh.
Giving details of the arrest here on Monday evening, IG ATS, Aseem Arun, said that on the basis of inputs collected from their counterparts in Kashmir, who had arrested four militants and had already grilled them to extract details about their subversive activities, along with surveillance of some mobile numbers, they (ATS) traced the location of one of the conduit, here at lohiapath in lucknow on Monday morning. They immediately intercepted him and brought him to the ATS for further interrogation.
The accused revealed his identity as Sheikh Ali Akbar, hailing from Kasera Pokhra locality of Jamniya in Gazipur district, and confirmed his connection with the terrorists arrested in Kashmir. Ali claimed that he met the above militants here at Gazipur and collected Rs 40,000 from them to arrange weapons. He said to have come in contact with the militants with the help of social website Rs Whattsapp’ and the militants also invited him to join them for terror training in Pakistan.
Arun said that they seized the mobile phone of the accused in which they also found several clippings of Rs Jehad’. He said that they arrested the accused and were grilling him to extract the names of his other group members, what help he had so far forwarded to his Kashmiri counterparts, particularly regarding subversive activity in Uttar Pradesh or any other part of the country. Besides they were also trying to get details of his social media contacts and information exchanged with suspected militants so they further arrest could be carried out to expose the entire network.