Azamgarh man who fled to Riyadh was influencing UP youths to join jihadi movement

LUCKNOW: Using a extremely secured chat software Threema, a 37-year-old UAE based guy used to be convincing youths staying in western UP to enroll in jihadi motion in India. Arrested at Mumbai international airport on Saturday night time, Abu Zaid used to be caught via safety businesses deployed at the airport as a lookout realize used to be pending against him.

Soon after he got off from UAE - Mumbai flight, police staff nabbed Abu Zaid. He used to be being hunted since April 2017 from the time four self-radicalised youths have been arrested via anti-terrorist squad (ATS) of UP police for making plans terror moves. The team got here underneath the radar of safety businesses soon after National Investigation Agency arrested fiery cleric Abdus Sami Qasmi in February 2016.

Azamgarh resident Abu Zaid had shifted to United Arab Emirates and were staying at Riyadh for a year, ATS has been able to substantiate up to now. Along with indoctrinated youths, Zaid used to be making plans to strike down individuals opposing caliphate such as Tarek Fateh.

Inspector common UPATS Asim Arun mentioned that safety businesses in the country have evolved knack to crack secured chat apps thru cyber forensics. In a countrywide operation, four youths Umar alias Nazim, Gazi Baba alias Zeeshan, Mufti alias Faizan and Zaqwan have been arrested on April 20 from Mumbra, Jalandhar, Bijnore and Narkatiaganj respectively.

Settled in Mumbra, Umar used to be local of Bijnor district and used to be trying to lure youths from his home district, Shamli, Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur and Meerut into the conflict against non-believers.


ATS confiscated Umar's phone, who used to be providing finances to the opposite three and extracted his chat historical past thru cyber equipment. To handle entire anonymity, Threema supplies random IDs to its users with out asking them to offer a phone number or e-mail deal with. "But we managed to decode the chat excerpts exchanged between Umar and Zaid somehow," added Arun.


It used to be discovered that Zaid used to be making an attempt to reach out a large number of youths in 16 to 30 age team thru social media and sought Umar's lend a hand to take action. He also provided finances continuously to propagate the message.


ATS DySP Anoop Singh flew down to Mumbai early Sunday morning on being sounded out and is escorting Zaid to Lucknow. "He would be produced before court and we would seek his custody. Zaid is a prized catch and we expect to learn a lot of things which are unknown to us," mentioned Arun. The focal point would be to determine the main supply which is funding the covert motion.


Meanwhile on Sunday night a police staff were despatched to Zaid's area in Gambhirpur area of Azamgarh to determine status of Zaid's circle of relatives and his background.
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