Suspected ISIS Terrorist Arrested In Chhattisgarh's Durg District
Wajihuddin, a resident of Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh, was held from Smriti Nagar under Supela police station area of the district, Durg Police said in a statement.
Durg: A suspected
"ISIS terrorist" was arrested by a joint team of the Uttar Pradesh
ATS (Anti-Terrorist Squad) and Chhattisgarh police from Chhattisgarh's Durg
district on Wednesday, officials said.
Wajihuddin, a
resident of Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh, was held from Smriti Nagar under Supela
police station area of the district, Durg Police said in a statement.
An Anti-Terrorist
Squad unit of Jhansi came to Durg to track down Wajihuddin, against whom a case
had been registered under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and
Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, by the ATS Lucknow, the statement
said.
After a
24-hour-long search operation, he was caught, the release said.
Durg Police
handed over Wajihuddin to the UP ATS and further court-related procedure was
being carried out, it said.
"In the
preliminary interrogation, Wajihuddin informed that he was associated with SAMU
(Students of Aligarh Muslim University) and supporter of the ideology of ISIS
(Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a middle-east terror group)," the
release added.
He was allegedly
linked to Mohammad Rizwan, an active ISIS member arrested by the Delhi police,
it claimed.
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