Osama’s father Usaid-ur-Rahman, who is currently in Dubai and runs a Seminary, Pakistan is suspected to be in direct contact with the ISI.
A day after the Delhi Police Special Cell busted a racket with the arrest of six accused suspected of planning terror attacks in Maharashtra, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh during the upcoming festive season.
According to Special Cell and Intelligence Bureau sources, one of the six suspects named Osama’s father and maternal uncle Hamadur Rehman, who may be involved in the entire module, has been arrested. In addition, Osama’s father Usaid-ur-Rehman, who is currently in Dubai, runs a madrasa and is suspected to be in direct contact with Pakistan’s ISI.
The investigating agencies have come to know of Osama’s mobile chat with his father.
It has also been revealed in the interrogation that the responsibility of setting up a new module of terror and underworld was given to a Colonel-rank officer of Pakistan’s ISI, who was present at the Gwadar Port’s farm house during training. He was present in plain clothes.
The Colonel chose Osama’s father, who was in Dubai, to install the Terror Component (module) and decided to send his son to Pakistan for terrorist training. However, he needed another boy for the terror plan so Osama’s uncle Humaidur Rahman was given the job. Then Rahman established Zeeshan and sent him to Pakistan for terrorist training.
The Underworld Component Task was given to Dawood’s brother Anish by Colonel Ghazi. The team’s responsibility was to provide money, arms and ammunition to the trained terrorists, for which Sameer Kalia, a resident of Dharavi, was being used.
Some WhatsApp messages and voice messages have also been recovered from its phone and it is being investigated.
Meanwhile, in the initial interrogation, the police did not get any information from Imtiaz and Jameel, due to which their families have been called and handed over to both.
UP ATS had issued a press note claiming to hand over the special cell by showing the names of these three in the arrest.
Earlier in the day, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad claimed that terror suspect Jan Mohammad Sheikh, arrested by the Delhi Police along with five others, had links with ‘D-Company’ nearly 20 years ago.
‘D-Company’ is a term used to refer to the underworld criminal syndicate controlled by fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim.
All these developments came after the Special Cell of the Delhi Police on Tuesday busted a Pakistan-organized terror module in which six people, including two Pak-ISI trained terrorists, were arrested, officials said.
He said the terrorists were allegedly planning multiple blasts across the country, including in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, during the festivals of Ganesh Chaturthi, Navratri and Ramlila.
Of the six arrested, Shaikh (47), a resident of Mumbai, his family was questioned and his house was searched by the Mumbai Police and Maharashtra ATS on Tuesday after his arrest became public.
The police had also said that Pakistan-based Anees Ibrahim, who is Dawood Ibrahim’s brother, was associated with underworld operatives to carry out the terror plan.
On Wednesday, Maharashtra ATS chief Vineet Agarwal told reporters that Shaikh was a “henchman of the D-Company” and followed instructions “from the other side of the border” when he joined it.
The official said they found “Sheikh’s association with D-Company about 20 years ago”.
The Pydhonie police had registered a case against Sheikh here (at that time) in connection with the firing and vandalism in the city, the official said.
The state ATS official said that on September 13, he boarded the Golden Temple train (from Mumbai) to go to Hazrat Nizamuddin (in Delhi), but was caught by the Delhi Police on reaching Kota in Rajasthan. They said no weapons, explosives or gelatin were found during the search of their belongings.
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“Our team will go to Delhi to interrogate Sheikh and share (related) information with Delhi Police. We do not have a copy of the FIR (registered against him by Delhi Police), so we cannot disclose more. We Will only find out from Delhi Police what exactly information they have and what was the conspiracy (of terrorist suspects).”
The official further said that the state authorities have given a free hand to the Maharashtra ATS to deal strictly with terror activities and those involved in the case.
Responding to a question, the official claimed that the underworld now has ‘zero presence’.
Besides Shaikh, others arrested by Delhi Police have been identified as Osama (22), Moolchand (47), Zeeshan Qamar (28), Mohammad Abu Bakr (23) and Mohammad Amir Javed (31).
According to the police, Osama and Qamar were Pakistan-trained terrorist henchmen working under the instructions of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Police had earlier said that they were assigned the task of reconnaissance at different suitable locations in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh for possessing IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices).
The Delhi Police had also said that Shaikh, an underworld operative and close liaison of Anees Ibrahim, was tasked to ensure smooth delivery of IEDs, sophisticated weapons and grenades to various entities by a Pakistani man linked to underworld operatives hiding in Pakistan. had gone. in India.
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