On Friday, a Delhi Court convicted 4 men, who the Delhi police alleged, were part of a first group that was formed in India for expanding the network of the al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS). The court acquitted two persons in the case & the pronouncement of sententce is fixed for Feb 14.
Additional Sessions Judge, Patiala House Court, Sanjay Khanagwal, convicted Mohd. Asif, Mohd. Abdul Rehman, Zaffar Masood & Abdul Sami under Sections 18 & 18B of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
Public prosecutor Irfan Ahmed told that Syed Mohd Zeeshan Ali & Sabeel Ahmad were acquitted.
The matter pertains to a First Information Report (FIR) lodged by the Delhi police special cell in Dec 2015 which received information that the terrorist organisation al-Qaeda was trying to set up its base in India under the banner of the AQIS & had declared Asim Umar as its ‘Amir’ (head).
The Delhi police said some youth from western Uttar Pradesh had left India & joined its cadre in Pakistan, & one of its module was active in Sambhal (Uttar Pradesh). The police, on a tip-off from an informer, found that Mohammed Asif, who used to live in the Deepa Sarai area in Sambhal, had visited Iran & Turkey & was involved in suspicious activities.
The police than apprehended Asif from Delhi, who was found to be head of India’s AQIS outfit. The police booked him under Sections 18, 18B & 20 of the UAPA.
The Delhi police claimed that during interrogation, Asif told them about Zafar Masood & another aid Mohd Abdul Rehman. The two were arrested from Sambhal & Cuttack, Odisha, respectively.
Visited Pakistan
The police told the Court that Mohd. Abdul Rehman was also found visiting Pakistan illegally & meeting top militants there, including Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi & Sajid, both wanted in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.
In 2016, the police arrested Abdul Sami, resident of Jamshedpur (Jharkhand), in the similar case. He was arrested from Mewat, Haryana & was claimed to be a Pakistan-trained militant.
The interrogation of the accused revealed that Syed Mohd Zeeshan Ali & Dr. Sabeel Ahmad were also part of conspiracy for providing financial & logistics assistance to cadres of the AQIS in the UAE. Zeeshan Ali was deported from the UAE in 2017 & arrested whereas Dr. Sabeel Ahmad was deported in 2020. Sabeel was initially arrested in a Bengaluru terror case by the National Investigation Agency from the IGI Airport, Delhi & later he was held in this case.
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