The sleuths of the Anti-Terrorists Squad (ATS) grilling Raj Mohammad who threatened to blow up the offices of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), claimed he has connection with the Popular Front of India (PFI).
Sources said that Raj Mohammed, arrested from Tamil Nadu on June 7 last, has revealed during the interrogation by UP ATS that he had worked for the PFI and SDPI for three years.
At present, the ATS is interrogating Mohammad on remand.
Raj Mohammad, who threatened to bomb six RSS offices in the country, disclosed that he was an active member of the Popular Front of India (PFI) and the Socialist Democratic Party of India (SDPI) between 2018 and 2021.
However, what he did after 2021, he has not yet disclosed.
It may be mentioned that Dr Neelkanth Mani Pujari, associated with the Sangh, was threatened on his WhatsApp number that the RSS offices would be blown up with bombs. The threat was to blow up RSS offices in Lucknow, Nawabganj in Unnao and four places in Karnataka. This threat was sent in three languages. After getting the threat, Neelkanth lodged an FIR at Madiaon police station.
Taking the threat seriously, UP ATS started investigating and later alerted the Tamil Nadu police and after tracking the address of the alleged accused, he was taken into custody by Thirukokarnam police station, Pudhukottai.
The ATS brought Mohammad the Lucknow and took his police custody remand to grill him further.
Meanwhile, sleuths of the National Investigation Agency raided a house in Deoband and arrested an accused, identified as Majidullah, hailing from Myanmar. The arrest was made in connection with the involvement of the accused in human trafficking racket. Majidullah is accused of settling illegal Rohingya Bangladeshi Muslims in India. Mobiles, laptops, SIM cards were recovered from him.
Sources confirmed that the NIA team raided Deoband in Saharanpur district on Wednesday night and arrested a Myanmar national for alleged illegal smuggling of Rohingyas into India and Muslims from Bangladesh.
An NIA spokesperson said that the case related to illegal smuggling of Rohingya and Muslims from Bangladesh into India and settling them in different parts of the country on the basis of fake documents.
The NIA said that taking cognisance in this matter, a case was registered in December last year. The agency had filed a charge-sheet against six accused in this case on June 4. During the searches, digital devices, mobile phones, SIM cards, laptops, memory cards and other documents indicating involvement in the crime were also seized, a spokesman said.
The spokesman said that during the investigation, the involvement of the arrested Myanmar national Majidullah in the conspiracy to smuggle people to different parts of India was revealed. He said that the accused was arrested from Deoband and further investigation was on.