UP ATS says terror suspect Nadeem was receiving instructions from Pak handlers

Nadeem in particular, was in touch with terrorist organizations across the border and has been getting directions through PDF files translated from English into Urdu at Deoband, the ATS said. It said that Nadeem who has studied only till standard 8 and could not read Urdu by himself, used to get the translated literature read by a fellow student at Deoband.

Saharanpur: The Uttar Pradesh ATS has said that one of the three suspected terrorists arrested recently was in regular touch with his handlers from across the border who used to provide him with written directions through PDF files. As per the ATS, one of the accused Nadeem was nabbed by ATS from Saharanpur and Sabauddin, who is linked with ISIS and got arrested from Azamgarh, is trained for executing Guerrilla or Lone wolf attacks even as an 'automatic knife' was recovered from them.

The third accused Habibul Islam (19) aka Saifullah was arrested from Kanpur on Sunday. It is said that Saifullah was an expert at creating virtual iIDs and he had made 50 such IDs for militants from Pakistan and Afghanistan. Besides, Saifullah was in contact with many handlers sitting in Pakistan and Afghanistan. As per the UP ATS Saifullah, who was brought from Fatehpur to Kanpur by the ATS has revealed that many others among his acquaintances in Kanpur are also associated with him in this terrorist group.

Nadeem in particular was in touch with terrorist organizations across the border and has been getting directions through PDF files translated from English into Urdu at Deoband, the ATS said. It said that Nadeem who has studied only till standard 8 and could not read Urdu by himself, used to get the translated literature read by a fellow student at Deoband.

In the interrogation by the ATS, Nadeem told them that he had gone to Deoband 18 times to read the PDF files. Nadeem's connections have also been found in other cities of UP besides Bihar and Jharkhand. The ATS had recovered many suspicious items including documents related to terrorists, several mobile numbers, PDF files in mobile phones, and a toolkit for making bombs, from Nadeem.

Nadeem used to work in a company in Dehradun two years ago, but returned home during the Corona period. In the subsequent months, he joined terrorist organizations through Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, Telegram, etc, the ATS said. It said that the terrorist organizations gave Nadeem the first task to kill suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma for which he was also provided a training course besides making and detonating bombs.

He was also planning to carry out other subversive activities across India. According to Deoband ATS in-charge Sudhir Ujjwal, much evidence of being a member of Jaish-e-Mohammed and Tehreek-e-Taliban terrorist organizations has been found from Nadeem.

The Special Court judge, Anurodh Mishra, has granted permission to Uttar Pradesh ATS to take custody of the three arrested terror suspects for twelve days beginning from August 17 to 29. The UP ATS had earlier pleaded before the Special Court for the remand of the three accused for questioning.