ATS will get week’s custody of terror-funding mastermind
The anti-terror squad (ATS), on Wednesday, acquired seven days custody of the alleged mastermind behind pan-India terror funding community Zia-ul-Haq.
ATS will get week’s custody of terror-funding mastermind (Pic is for illustration)
The ATS officers stated the competent court docket has granted Haq’s seven days custody remand from Could 8 to Could 13.
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They stated Haq could be interrogated about his community unfold throughout totally different states and thru which they’d, in change of cash, move on essential data of Indian Military to Pakistan’s secret company, the Inter-Companies Intelligence (ISI).
Haq, a resident of Jaukatiya village underneath Majholia police station limits of East Champaran, Bihar, was arrested at Khalilabad railway station in Sant Kabir Nagar district when he was travelling in direction of Delhi on Friday.
“Haq will probably be questioned about his hyperlinks with ISI handlers working from overseas and what kind of knowledge he might need already handed on to them earlier than his arrest,” a senior ATS official stated.
This official stated Haq’s involvement surfaced after the arrest of Punjab’s Bhatinda resident, auto driver Amrit Pal Singh alias Amrit Gill (25) and U.P.’s Ghaziabad resident Riyaz-u-din, on November 25, 2023.
Earlier, the involvement of a Bihar’s Betiah resident Izharul Hussain, who was already lodged in Bettiah jail in Bihar had surfaced first within the terror funding community as he operated the checking account of Riyaz-u-din by suspicious transactions price round ₹ 75 lakh inside a month.
