Faridabad: A terrorist identified as Abdul Rehman of age around 19 living in a hideout, a tubewell room having no electricity in the agriculture field in Pali village of Faridabad since past three days, plotting a conspiracy to attack Ram Mandir in Ayodhya was arrested late Sunday evening by the Palwal STF team. He was produced before area magistrate Sanchita Singh in the district court and remanded to police custody for ten days by the court. Alleged accused was plotting an attack on the Ram temple. The local police are under fire as to how he found a hideout in the tubewell room in agriculture fields of Pali village for the past three days without having any clue about the terrorist in the fields that remain dark at night. There was no proper way to go there and the question arises why the terrorist chose this lonely place and stayed there for three days.
Preliminary investigation revealed, this terrorist was plotting to attack the Ram temple in Ayodhya. However, one or two farmers had spotted him, but thinking him to be drunk, they did not bother him. After the arrest of the terrorist during remand period, a Faridabad police officer said that the accused was constantly receiving messages from his terrorist colleagues and the organization from somewhere, carrying a hand grenade and was going to move forward via Faridabad, who was plotting to attack Ayodhya Ram Mandir. Police sources revealed that the terrorist organization ISIS Khorasan is active in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The source said that this terrorist organization brainwashed Abdul Rehman and others and prepared him to attack the temple by inciting religious sentiments about the temple being built in place of the mosque in Ayodhya. Information revealed that Abdul Rehman was in contact with this terrorist organization for the past several months. He was contacted through social media, after which he was included in the terrorist group.
Investigation further revealed that videos that were hurtful towards a particular religion were uploaded in the group, and such recorded video messages were also being sent to the people in the group. In these messages, Abdul and other youths like him were told that they have been oppressed in Ayodhya and they have to take revenge for it and were prepared for such an attack. According to the police, Abdul Rehman made a recce of the Ram temple and its surroundings on the instructions of this ISIS terrorist organization and made a video of the Ayodhya Ram Temple place. He also shared many videos with the terrorist organization. During a police search, similar videos were recovered from his mobile phone and terrorist Abdul Rehman was constantly in touch with his companions. After the recce, preparations for the attack were underway.
After the arrest of terrorist Abdul Rehman from Bans Road Pali, a Faridabad Police official said that the accused was constantly receiving messages from his terrorist companions and the organization. Under this, he came from somewhere with a hand grenade and was going to proceed further via Faridabad. But after reaching here, he was unable to contact his fellow terrorists. Due to this, he took shelter in a deserted vacant lonely place on Bans Road Pali and stayed at night, whereas he was roaming around the nearby areas throughout the day carrying bags of hand grenades. ATS Gujarat, along with the help of Intelligence Bureau (IB), collected the details of the terrorist and shared his photo with STF. On Sunday, February 2, the ATS and IB teams came to know about the location of the terrorist in Pali area of Faridabad and three teams of security agencies conducted raids and caught the accused. From the initial interrogation of the accused, it was clear that he had been brainwashed. During interrogation, the accused admitted that he had two hand grenades in his bag, when Immediately the bomb disposal squad was called on the spot and they defused both the hand grenades.
Police spokesperson Yashpal Singh said that based on the statement of the STF, an FIR has been registered against the terrorist at Faridabad’s Dabua police station under sections 25 (1) (A) of the Arms Act, sections 4 (A), 4 (B), 5 of the Explosive Substances Act 1908 and section 9B (1) (B) of the Explosives Act 1884. The investigating agency left after taking the terrorist on a 10-day remand. The STF officer said that a joint police team has been sent to search the house of a terrorist in UP at Faizabad along with the arrested terrorist Abdul Rehman. Investigation further revealed that Terrorist Abdul Rehman was arrested with a hand grenade in Palwall who originally hails from Visakhapatnam. On Monday, STF also questioned the family members of the accused, who disclosed that Abdul Rehman was in contact with Maulana Usman Hazrat, a resident of Purani Sabzi Mandi in Faizabad, who left home about two months ago. His mother Yasmin said that Abdul used to drive an e-rickshaw.
