After successfully gunning down ISIS terror accused Saifullah, ADG of the Uttar Pradesh Police (ADG UP) Daljeet Chaudhary on Wednesday said the youth was self-radicalised and was influenced by ‘literature’.
After successfully gunning down ISIS-terror accused Saifullah, Additional Director General of the Uttar Pradesh Police (ADG UP) Daljeet Chaudhary on Wednesday said the youth was self-radicalised and was influenced by ‘literature’. This was in contradiction to MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s claims who had said that ISIS were involved in the Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train blast.
‘After planting a timer bomb bag in the train, the terrorists clicked the pictures and sent photo to their handler in Syria through social media,’ Chouhan had told the media. Congratulating the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), Madhya Pradesh Police and central forces for their coordination and work, the Chief Minister told ANI earlier in the day that the interrogation of the three suspects arrested is on.
‘The police have arrested the three terrorists named mastermind Atif Muzaffar and Md. Danish - both residents of Kanpur - and Syed Meer Hussain,’ he said. Meanwhile, Chaudhary seemed to disagree with the MP CM. ‘These days, people self-radicalise themselves. They read their literature and come under its influence. Also, they follow social media for the same,’ Chaudhary told the media.
‘The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) accompanied by civil police completed the operation. When we reached the spot, the self-proclaimed, self-radicalised ISIS youth locked up himself inside the building and started talking about martyrdom,’ he said.
‘We tried to convince him to come out but he kept firing at us. Tear-gas shells were thrown at him. He died in an exchange of fire between him and the police,’ he further said. The police recovered eight pistols, three passports, more than 600 cartridges, bomb-making instruments, timers, wires, compass etc. ‘45 grams gold and foreign currency was also recovered,’ he said. The ADG also informed that the four youth, who were living in the building, were the ones responsible for the IED blast that took place yesterday in the Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train.
‘4 were living there. They only did the IED blast in Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train,’ he said The cops have also claimed that the accused were a part of ISIS Khorasan module, a terror outfit associated with Al Qaeda. However, Chaudhary denied having any evidence of ISIS link with the incident.
The perpetrators of Bhopal-Ujjain train bomb explosion were influenced by ISIS ideology and the incident was a "trial blast" as the terrorists planned to carry out more attacks, Madhya Pradesh Government said today. "The terrorists were influenced by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terror ideology and carried out the blast. It was a pre-planned conspiracy," Chouhan said in the Assembly during the ongoing budget session.
Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Bhupendra Singh said the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion in the passenger train was a "trial blast". "Yesterday's explosion carried out through IED was a trial blast. The police, however, smashed this terror network within five hours after the blast in train," Singh told media persons in the state Assembly premises today.
The terrorists had plans to orchestrate the blasts at some other places also, he claimed. Earlier, speaking to mediapersons at Barwah town in Khargone district late last night, Chouhan said, "Police detained three terrorists who planted bomb in Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train. It was revealed during initial interrogation from the arrested terrorists that they were connected to ISIS."
"The blast site smelt of deadly explosives. I would like to congratulate the ATS and police who immediately acted. Madhya Pradesh is a peaceful state and nobody would be allowed to create disturbance here," he said.
These terrorists had arrived from Lucknow and planted the bomb in Bhopal-Ujjain train, he said. Chouhan said in the state Assembly that MP police and central agencies had unmasked the people behind the train blast in just five hours. "The three suspects detained for the blast in the state are being grilled thoroughly so as to reach to more of their accomplices," he said.
WIth inputs from PTI and ANI
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