ATS busts al-Qaeda module in Guj, 4 held

The Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad has arrested four men for allegedly operating a social media module that promoted the ideology and propaganda of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), a banned terrorist organisation, officials said, adding that the arrests followed a statewide and interstate operation carried out on July 21 and 22 based on intelligence inputs received last month.

- HT Correspondent

The investigation identified four people operating the accounts: Fardeen Shaikh from Fatehwadi, Ahmedabad; Mohammad Faiq from Chandni Chowk, Delhi; Zeeshan Ali from Noida, UP; and Sefullah Qureshi from Modasa in Gujarat.

Gujarat ATS DIG Sunil Joshi said that all four individuals had been under watch for suspected links to the terror outfit and that the operation to arrest them was done based on specific intelligence inputs and coordinated surveillance.