Lucknow: Anti-Terrorist forces (ATS) Uttar Pradesh Police on Sunday claimed to have damaged the Ansar Ghazwat-Ul-Hind module, said to be auxiliary unit Al Qaeda, with two operative arrests.
Both of them planned a series of explosions at Uttar Pradesh around independence day, ATS claimed.
While Dehuths arrested Minaz Ahmad, 32, from a house in the suburb of Lucknow, his colleague Masiruddin, 50, aka Mushir was picked from his home at first.
Improvised explosive device (IED) in the form of a pressure cooker bomb along with a 9mm Countrymade gun restored from Minaz’s house.
According to the researchers, the two defendants were related to Umar Halmandi, al-Qaeda operations registered somewhere along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Above the direction of Umar, the Duo is planning an explosion in the state.
Umar is said to handle al-Qaeda operations in the sub-continent area of ​​India.
The researchers were looking for other colleagues from the arrest accused of being identified as Shakeel, which is a neighbor of Minaz.
Director General of Police, Law and Order, Prashant Kumar, said that Al Qaeda was a multi-national terrorist organization founded in 1988 by Osama-bin-Laden and Abdullah Azzam during the Soviet-Afghan war.
Also, the Indian sub-continent module was announced on September 3, 2014, by Al Zawahiri and Maulana Asim Omar was made as its leader.
ASIM Umar was rooted in the Sambal District of Uttar Pradesh and killed in 2019 in Afghanistan.
In the end, this module was run by Umar Halmandi from the Peshawar / Quetta area.
“Umar Halmandi is radical and then recruiting a man from Uttar Pradesh for the unit of AGH.
Halmandi along with other operators and defendants who were arrested planned to release terror activities on August 15 in various cities in the state, as well as important places that have high footfall.
Also planning to use human bombs, “Kumar said.” We have developed information based on the tip-off informer and then the ATS team arrested the defendant.
A Ied in the form of a pressure stove bomb recovered from the house.
The defendant was also tamed by the bomb disposal unit, “said ADG .
“During interrogation, the people accused of saying that their hands fled their homes.
The ATS team together with the local police have conducted an intensive check-in in and around Lucknow,” said Inspector General of Police, ATS, GK Goswamy.
Goswamy said that the defendant arrested was connected with AGH for the past year.
They interact with operators on social media.
“We have intercepted them as they planned an immediate attack.
Some family members accused Minaz had been detained and questioned.
The form of a pressure cooker bomb made at Masiruddin’s house and was taken to Minaz’s house to further carry out the attack,” Goswamy said.
The police also said that search operations in the district around Lucknow were underway.
Profile of Terror Defendant Masiruddin | His mother Shahijhan said that his son had a property-related job but after Lokdown Covid-19, he was forced to run e-rickshaw.
“We have an old house in Khadra that we sold last year and began living in a semi-construction house in Mohibullaahapur,” he told the newspaper.
He also said that his son was innocent and very poor.
He also requested innocence when asked about his friendship with Minaz Ahmad.
Minaz | Jawwad, a local at JehTA Brawan when in Kakori where Minaz Ahmad was arrested, said that the defendant had a vehicle battery shop.
He also added that the wife of the defendant worked in a private institution as assistant professor while his father retired from Vikas Bhavan as officer.
ATS officials said that Minaz worked as a lab assistant at a private institute and then began dealing with vehicle batteries.
An officer who knew the probe said that his wife was recently alienated.