Four arrested in Lakhimpur for terror funding: UP DGP

Four persons involved in a terror funding racket have been arrested from Lakhimpur district in Uttar Pradesh. Police also recovered an unspecified amount of Indian and Nepali currencies, besides several mobile phones from the four.

Lucknow: Four persons allegedly involved in terror funding in the country have been arrested from the Nighasan area of Lakhimpur district.

Ummed Ali, Sanjay Agarwal, Sameer Salmani and Airaj Ali were arrested on October 10 night by the local police on a tip-off that some persons were involved in bringing money from Nepal and using it to fund terror activities in the country, said Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police O P Singh.

The DGP said that the accused had stolen Rs 49 lakh by hacking the website of a Nepal bank. The money was to be used for funding terror activities in India.

He said that four more people in Nepal were involved in the racket. The main accused named Mumtaz is yet to be arrested.

He said that the case would now be transferred to the ATS and they would contact their counterparts in Nepal.

The DGP said that five youths had been missing for years from Sambhal district and it was believed that they could be linked to Sana-ul-Haq alias Asim Umar who was killed in Afghanistan last month.