10 terror suspects held after police raids at Mumbai, Jalandhar, 4 other places

New Delhi/Lucknow, April20 : Police from different states in a joint operation raided various places at Mumbai, Jalandhar, Bijnor, Muzaffarnagar and Natkatiyaganj (Bihar) on Thursday and arrested 10 terror suspects.Delhi Police Special Cell, Andhra Pradesh CIE Cell, Maharashtra ATS, Punjab Police and Bihar Police were involved in the operation.
According to information, they were involved in enrolling members for the terror group and preparing them for terror attacks.
UP ATS IG Aseem Arun, in a statement in Noida, said the accused, associated with the ISIS Khorasan module, were planning to launch a major terror attack in the country.
Mufti Faizan and Tanveer, who are connected with ISIS, were arrested from Bijnor district. Nazim Shamshad Ahmed (26), who hails from Bijnor was nabbed from Mumbra township in Thane district adjoining Mumbai, and Muzammil was apprehended from Jalandhar district.
Arun said six persons have been taken into custody and they are being questioned.
He said the three accused will be produced in a Noida court where the ATS will seek their transit remand to take them to Lucknow. He said important documents relating to ISIS were seized from them.The accused had got in touch with each other over the internet, he said, adding that central security agencies played an important role in the operation. According to the IG, the ATS had seized some important documents after the March 7 encounter in Lucknow in which a suspected terrorist belonging to the Khorasan module was killed. Following this, the probe was expanded to five states.