Police on lookout for uncle of one of arrested Pak-trained terrorists

New Delhi, Sep 15 (PTI) Delhi Police is looking for Humaid-ur-Rehman, a relative of one of alleged terrorists arrested by Special Cell, officials said on Wednesday.

Delhi Police's Special Cell on Tuesday busted a Pakistan-organised terror module with arrest of six men, including two Pak-ISI trained terrorists.

accused, identified as Jaan Mohamm Sheikh (47) alias ''Sameer'', Osama (22), Moolchand (47), Zeeshan Qamar (28), Mohd Abu Bakar (23) and Mohd Amir Javed (31), were arrested following raids in Delhi and parts of Uttar Presh.

All six arrested accused, including Osama and Qamar, were produced at a Delhi court and have been taken on 14 days' police remand for furr interrogation, y said.

Jamil Khatri (28), a resident of Rae Bareli, and Imtiaz Ali (38), a resident of Pratapgarh, were detained on Wednesday in connection with probe by police.

Through technical surveillance and manual inputs, both Khatri and Imtiaz came under suspicion. Both of m belong to a poor economic background, police said.

y did small work to earn ir living. Ali earlier worked in Mumbai and was now engaged in fishing activities at his native village.

Both of m were let off after questioning and were handled over to ir relatives. y will be called for questioning again, if required, a senior police officer said.

Police are looking for Humaid-ur-Rehman, a resident of Uttar Presh's Allahab who is uncle of Osama, Pak-trained terrorist who was arrested by special cell team on Tuesday.

Osama, is a third year BA student of an Allahab-based university, while Zeeshan Qamar, a native of Lucknow, second Pak-trained terrorist arrested by Special Cell on Tuesday is a gruate and earlier worked as an accountant in a business firm, officer said.

Qamar allegedly got in touch with Humaid-Ur-Reham for business-related work a few years ago and eventually got ricalized by him.

Police said that Humaid-ur-Rehman was primarily link through which both Osama and Qamar came in touch with terror operatives. He arranged for ir transportation and helped m in reaching Pakistan, police said.

Police said accused men, Qamar, Humaid-ur-Rehman and Osama, preferred meeting physically and avoided contacting each or on mobile phones. Even when y sent messages on WhatsApp, y ensured that y deleted ir conversation immediately.

arrested accused, Shaikh, who is closely associated with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's bror, Anees, since last over a dece, used dark network applications to receive instructions from across border, officer said.

Phones of accused have been seized and will be sent to Forensic Science Laboratory for furr examination, y said.

Police h said interrogation revealed that Pakistan terror module was being operated through two components, via underworld and Pak-ISI trained terror module.

Special Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Neeraj Kumar Thakur h said, "In a multi-state operation, we have arrested six people, including two Pakistan-trained terrorists. Two among m, Osama and Qamar h gone to Pakistan for training this year, following which y returned to India.” Police said y got inputs from central agencies that a Pak-abetted and sponsored group of entities is planning to execute serial IED blasts in India.

"With help of human and technical surveillance, it was found that network was spre across various states. On Tuesday, we conducted raids simultaneously in different states and initially, first accused, Sheikh, was apprehended from near Kota in Rajasthan while he was on a train on way to Delhi," Thakur h said.

Later, Osama was nabbed from Delhi's Okhla and Bakar from Sarai Kale Khan, while Qamar was apprehended from Allahab, Javed from Lucknow and Moolchand from Rae Bareilly in close coordination with UP Anti-Terrorist Squ (ATS) team, officer h said. PTI NIT/AMP AAR AAR