Aged between 20 and 25, the four terror suspects — who were reportedly assigned major targets — were arrested from Gujarat, Delhi, and Noida in Uttar Pradesh. They were tasked with carrying out attacks at high-profile locations across India.
The Gujarat Police’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Wednesday arrested four terror suspects allegedly linked to the terror group Al Qaeda. They were tasked with carrying out attacks at high-profile locations across India.
Aged between 20 and 25, the four terror suspects — who were reportedly assigned major targets — were arrested from Gujarat, Delhi, and Noida in Uttar Pradesh.
While two were caught in Gujarat, the rest were arrested in Delhi and Noida respectively.
All four, identified as Mohd Fardeen, Sefullah Kureshi, Zeeshan Ali and Mohd Faiq, were connected to each other through a social media app.
Further interrogation is underway. During the initial course of investigation, the authorities revealed that the accused had cross-border links.
Earlier, a UN report has revealed that Al Qaeda is shaping its regional affliate to spread its terror operations in the Indian subcontinent, namely Jammu and Kashmir in India and the neighbouring countries of Bangladesh and Myanmar.
The 32nd report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team of the 1267 ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council, released this week, noted that “one Member State assessed that Al-Qaeda is shaping AQIS (Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent) to spread its operations into neighbouring Bangladesh”, Jammu and Kashmir and Myanmar.
In the Indian subcontinent, Al Qaeda has approximately 200 fighters, with Osama Mehmood being the emir.
