The Special Cell of Delhi Police has achieved a major success and busted the Pakistan -backed All India Terrorist Module. Five militants have been arrested from Delhi, Telangana and Madhya Pradesh, from whom weapons, cartridges and IED material have been recovered.The officials gave this information on Thursday. He said that weapons, ammunition and bomb-making chemicals have also been seized in a coordinated raids in Delhi, Jharkhand, Telangana and Madhya Pradesh. This group was plotting to establish ‘Khilafat’ in India in violent ways.
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Big action before festive season
Investigators have achieved a major success by taking this action before the upcoming festive season and these arrests have demolished the gang spread across India which was working to create an underground base for jihadi training. All the accused, led by a post-graduate youth of Jharkhand, were allegedly plotting to acquire land acquisition to set up secret training bases, the last objective of which was to tease ‘Gajwa-e-Hind’.
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Terrorists were in contact with a boss in Pakistan
Additional Police Commissioner (Special Cell) Pramod Kushwaha said at a press conference here, “The terrorists were in contact with a mentor in Pakistan, who instructed him through the social media forum, made them radical and instructed them to collect weapons, chemicals and ammunition components. He said, “The purpose of the group was not only to create IEDs, but also to create a self -sufficient ecosystem to make weapons and spread radical propaganda.”
He said that the Special Cell launched campaigns in close coordination with police forces and anti -terrorism squads of Jharkhand, Telangana, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. Kushwaha said, “We have arrested Bokaro resident and module leader Ashhar Danish alias CEO (23), Aftab Nasir Qureshi (25), resident of Kalyan in Mumbai, Sufayan Abubkar Khan (20), resident of Mumbra, Maharashtra, Mohammad Huzif Yemen (20), resident of Narasapur in Telangana and Kamran Kurashi Kurashi Khan (26), a resident of Rajgarh in Madhya Pradesh, have arrested.
Secret terrorist training
The police said in a statement that the gang was plotting land acquisition of secret terrorist training to establish ‘Khilafat Kshetra’, the last objective of which was Gajwa-e-Hind (attack on India). The statement said that Danish was arrested from Ranchi and chemical substances including IED -making equipment were seized from his rented room. He admitted that he had bought arms, ammunition and explosives under a criminal conspiracy to establish Khilafat in violent ways.
According to the police, he told that he was receiving instructions from a boss in Pakistan and was in constant touch with other modules members. Giving information about the arrest, Kushwaha said that the first success was achieved on September 9. Two suspects – Aftab Qureshi and Sufian Khan – near the theme park adjacent to Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station in Delhi – were recovered near two -cm -automatic pistols (.32 bore) and 15 cartridges, after which they were arrested.
After this, on September 10, other accused were arrested by raiding Ranchi, Thane, Bengaluru, Nizamabad and Rajgarh. The most important seizures were from the rented room in Ranchi of the main conspirator Ashhar Danish, where the police found chemicals, ammunition parts and IED making equipment.
Police said that another accused, Pharmacy student, Mohammad Huzaff Yemen was arrested from Nizamabad. He confessed to using weapons and ammunition under the guidance of Danish. Kamran Qureshi, arrested from Rajgarh, revealed that he came in contact with Danish through social media groups.