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Islamic State suspect from Mumbai arrested in Delhi

Mohsin was also reportedly in touch with Syrian terrorists.

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One more person suspected to be working for the Islamic State (IS) has been arrested from Delhi by the capital's special cell police on Friday. Mohsinh Ibrahim Sayyed, who hails from Mumbai was arrested from Delhi's Kashmere Gate ISBT area.  He was found to be in possession of Rs 85,000.

"His age is around 26 years and he is a resident of Malad West in Mumbai. He was part of Roorkee module and was planning to go to Syria.  Hw was arrested last night based on a tip-off from a central intelligence agency. Sayyed is a muezzin at Malad in Mumbai," Special  Commisioner  of Police (Special CP) Arvind Deep. 

"He had come to Delhi to meet an associate," said Deep.

Sayeed, who is believed to be self-radicalised, was acting as a financier and had given Rs 50,000 to the four persons who were arrested from Haridwar last month. All of them were found to have links with a former Indian Mujahideen militant who later went to fight for ISIS. "He (Sayyed) was in touch particularly with Akhlaq, one of the four persons arrested last month," Deep said.

Meanwhile, police are checking his background record and a special cell team is trying to track down his contacts in the national capital. Delhi Police had last month arrested four persons with suspected ISIS links from Manglour in Uttarakhand and claimed to have unearthed a terror plot to target the Ardh Kumbh Mela at Haridwar, especially the trains headed there, along with some strategic locations in the national capital. The suspects were identified as Akhlaq ur-Rehman, Mohammed Osama, Mohammed Azim Shah and Mehroz.

"The arrested persons were allegedly in contact with a former Indian Mujahideen operative, who later went for training in Syria and is presently believed to be a key member of Ansar-ut Tawhid fi Bilad al-Hind (AuT), which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)," police said. 

With agency inputs.

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