INDIA
Junaid is wanted for blasts in Jaipur, UP & Ahmedabad
Indian Mujahideen's Ariz Khan alias Junaid, 32, has been arrested by the Delhi police, ending almost a decade-long run of the expert bomb-maker wanted for country-wide blasts that killed 165 people.
He was at Batla House, but managed to escape during the 2008 police encounter in Delhi's Jamia Nagar where two IM terrorists were killed and as many arrested. Encounter specialist Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma had also been killed in the gunfight.
A resident of Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh, he was carrying a reward of Rs 15 lakh on his arrest, and the Interpol had also issued a red corner notice. He was planning to revive the IM network in India, said PS Kushwah, DCP, Special Cell. The key member of the terror outfit was wanted for blasts in UP (2007), Jaipur (2008) and Ahmedabad (2008) that also left 535 people wounded. He kept shifting locations in Nepal and Saudi Arabia. He is also an expert blast conspirator and executioner.
The Delhi police's Special Cell arrested the engineer-turned-terrorist on Tuesday evening from Banbasa, a border town in Uttarakhand near Nepal. He will remain in police custody for interrogation at least till March 10.
Junaid had fled to Saudi Arabia in 2015 and went off the radar of intelligence agencies, but was forced to return to Nepal in 2017 as he faced cash crunch, with little help from IM bosses in Pakistan.
Intelligence agencies were alerted once he was back in Nepal. It was SIMI member Abdul Subhan alias Tauqeer's arrest in January 2018 by the Cell that blew Junaid's cover.
Tauqeer gave crucial information to the police about Junaid's movements. Both taught together at a school in Nepal.
Police officials were informed that Junaid would come to UP to meet an associate. He is said to have confessed to having fired during the Batla House encounter.
Junaid lived with his maternal uncle in Lajpat Nagar and Zakir Nagar in Delhi from April 2004 to May 2005. He later took admission for a B.Tech (Information Technology) course at SD College in UP's Muzaffarnagar.
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