Mumbai: Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism (ATS) forces have arrested a man from Mumbai in connection with the terror module supported by Pakistan captured by Delhi police earlier this week.
Zakir Hussain Shaikh, the defendant, dealing with someone from the “neighboring state”, ATS told the court here on Saturday while looking for his detention.
The court sent it in ATS detention until September 20.
Shaikh was arrested from the edge of Jogeshwari during the operation carried out on Friday night, said the source in the Mumbai Police Department.
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Rehman should be located abroad and observational notice has been issued to him, said source.
Delhi’s special cell on Tuesday destroyed the ‘terror module’ with the arrest of six people, including two terrorists trained by the Pakistani intelligence agency.
This module is thought to plan to carry out explosions throughout the country.
Jan Mohammad Shaikh, one of the six suspects, is a resident of Dharavi in Mumbai.
Zakir, whose name was cut during the interrogation of the suspect who was arrested, was associated with Jan Mohammed Shaikh, said the source, adding that FIR was separate under the activity that violated the law (prevention) of the law registered in Zakir here.
ATS told the Mumbai Court on Saturday that Zakir had been arrested in connection with a criminal conspiracy to carry out terror attacks using explosives in Maharashtra and elsewhere.
He was related to one ‘Anthony’ of “neighboring countries”, and ATS wanted to find out who this person was and what his role was in a conspiracy, he said.
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