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New Delhi, October 24 (IANS) Two suspected IS terrorists, arrested before planting bombs in Delhi, were sent to three-day police custody till October 27 by a city court on Friday. An officer gave this information.
Mohammed Abu Muharib, 19, is honored on October 16 and 18.
On Friday, a Delhi court sent both of them to police custody to pave the way for interrogation on the basis of data recovered from their mobile phones and pen drives seized from them.
Delhi Police, through the government lawyer, had sought a four-day extension in the custody of the two accused, but the Patiala House complex court allowed only a three-day extension in their custody.
Seeking their custody, the police said the gadgets seized from the duo were sent for laboratory analysis, and they wanted to interrogate the duo on their social media accounts.
The police also told the court that they are yet to interrogate some other suspects involved in the failed attempt to spread terror in the national capital.
According to police, both suspects had allegedly communicated with a Syria-based IS handler, identified as Abu Ibrahim al-Qureshi.
The defense counsel told the court that he has not yet been given a copy of the First Information Report (FIR).
Additional Commissioner of Police, Special Cell, Pramod Singh Kushwaha said the interstate module of IS was circulating jihadi videos on social media and had reached an advanced stage of planning attacks at crowded places in Delhi during the festive season.
He said, they have started purchasing material for Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
Following his arrest, Delhi Police recovered a pen drive which contained a video of Mohammad Adnan of Delhi getting married wearing IS attire (black clothes and scarf); An IS flag, mobile phones containing radical videos and related material, hard disks and a laptop.
Police said earlier, surveillance had revealed that Mohammed Adnan (Delhi) and Adnan Khan (Bhopal) were active on multiple social platforms, which were used to spread extremist content, recruit followers and coordinate activities.
During a search of Mohammad Adnan’s Delhi residence, investigators recovered three mobile phones containing incriminating IS material, pictures and manuals containing instructions for making a “remote detonation system”, “plastic bombs” and “Molotov cocktails”, a pen drive, hard disk, an IS flag, clothes used during bayah and a timer clock for use in an IED.
The Bhopal suspect was earlier arrested by the Uttar Pradesh ATS under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, and after getting bail in 2024, he resumed terrorist-related activity mainly through online recruitment and propaganda. In June 2024, he was arrested by the UP ATS for threatening an Additional Sessions Judge in connection with the videographic survey of Gyanvapi.
Police said Delhi-based MD Adnan confessed to taking “bayah” (pledge of allegiance) to the current IS caliph, Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qureshi, through a Syria-based handler.
“The marriage was recorded on video while the suspect was wearing IS clothing,” a police statement said.
Investigators said the Bhopal-based suspect regularly sent radical jihadist videos and instructed Mohammed Adnan to edit and broadcast them.
–IANS
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