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Jaipur, Nov 1 (IANS) Rajasthan’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has detained five people from Jaipur, Jodhpur, Jalore and Karauli districts following intelligence received from the Intelligence Bureau (IB). Officials gave this information on Saturday.
He said that the operation conducted on Friday morning exposed a suspicious network linked to foreign-based terrorist organizations and illegal funding channels.
Dinesh MN, Additional Director General, Anti-Terrorist Squad-Anti-Gangster Task Force, said, “Five persons have been detained for suspected involvement in foreign funding. They are being interrogated thoroughly and their digital devices are being forensically examined. No one has been formally arrested yet. We are investigating the sources and motives of the foreign funders.”
Officials said an intensive investigation is underway to uncover the full extent of the suspected terror funding network.
According to ATS officials, the detained suspects were allegedly in contact with suspicious persons abroad and were planning to travel abroad.
They are also accused of providing financial support to terror-linked groups through donations and secret funding networks, officials said.
Several mobile phones, donation receipts and other incriminating materials were seized during the raid.
All five are currently being interrogated in Jaipur.
Those detained have been identified as Osama Omar of Sanchore (Jalore), Masood of Pipar (Jodhpur), Mohammad Ayub of Jodhpur city, Mohammad Junaid of Karauli and Baseer of Jaipur.
Sources said that Osama (also known as Usman) and his brother Ayub worked as maulanas in local madrassas.
Ayub has reportedly been living in the Bombay Housing Scheme area of Jodhpur for the last 10-15 years and teaches in a madrasa in Chopasni village.
Masood arrested from Pipar is originally a resident of Barmer district.
In Jodhpur, ATS officials detained Ayub Khan after seizing two mobile phones, donation receipts and documents from his residence.
The search for Masood in Pipar town initially failed as he reportedly went underground after sensing police action.
However, he was later captured and additional documents and phones were seized.
Similarly, in a raid at Jodhawas in Sanchore, Osama alias Anwar Khan, a resident of Ramsar village in Barmer, who works as a maulvi of a mosque in Sanchore, was detained.
Senior officials confirmed that all five detainees are suspected of raising foreign funds to support radical activities.
The recovered digital devices are being forensically analyzed to trace communications and monetary links.
–IANS
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