ATS arrests two ISIS suspects allegedly plotting terror assaults throughout Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow Information

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad arrested two suspected ISIS terrorists, Abdullah Arsalan (26) and Maaz Bin Tariq (25), of Aligarh and introduced them to the ATS headquarters in Lucknow for questioning, on Monday.
The duo was allegedly planning terror actions throughout the state.
Arsalan is a BTech in petroleum chemical engineering from a non-public college, whereas Tariq is pursuing a BCom diploma by means of distance studying.
Particular DG (Legislation and Order) Prashant Kumar stated that each the accused had been impressed by ISIS ideology and had been taking directions from their ISIS handlers to hold out terror actions within the state. “They had been gathering materials and planning some strike,” Kumar added.
The ATS recovered propaganda materials associated to ISIS and Al Qaeda within the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) from the duo’s pen drives.
The ATS stated that Arsalan and Tariq’s names got here to gentle after the arrest of Shahnawaz Alam and Rizwan Ashraf by the Particular Cell of Delhi police. They had been related to the College students of Aligarh Muslim College (SAMU).
“Some members of this college students’ physique are sympathisers of ISIS,” the ATS stated. Alam and Ashraf had been self-radicalized and had disclosed that they had been planning assaults in Ayodhya, Delhi’s Akshardham, and Chabad Home in Mumbai on October 2.
Based mostly on their confession, one other member of the crew, Rizwan Ashraf, an engineer was held. Ashraf was allegedly in communication with a foreign-based handler and remaining members of the module and had taken a pledge to hitch ISIS.
“From the reminiscence of the digital units recovered from the arrested accused, anti-national ideology and literature of banned ISIS and AQIS had been discovered,” the ATS added.
The ATS stated that each Arsalan and Tariq had been arrested and offered earlier than the native court docket, the place they had been despatched to 14 days judicial custody. “Now we have requested the court docket for a custody remand of the accused in order that extra info will be obtained concerning the community of the accused by means of detailed interrogation and their associates will be arrested,” a senior ATS officer stated.