IM TERRORIST ARRESTED IN NEW DELHI
New Delhi, Feb. 14: The Delhi Police has arrested a suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist who had been on the run since the 2008 Batla House encounter, a senior officer said on Wednesday.
Ariz Khan was arrested by the Delhi Police's Special Cell.
An alleged Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist, who was linked to serial blasts in UP, Gujarat and Delhi and had escaped during the Batla House encounter, was arrested from the IndoNepal Border, police said.
A team of the Delhi Police’s Special Cell arrested Ariz Khan, 32, from Banwasa on Indo-Nepal border on Tuesday evening, said P.S. Kushwah, DCP (Special Cell).
“Khan was involved in reviving the IM and SIMI in the country after the arrest of its big leaders. He was absconding since a decade and a reward of `15 lakh had been announced for his arrest,” Kushwah said.
He was a member of Azamgarh (Sanjarmur) module of the IM and was based in Nepal where he was teaching at a school. His associate, Tauqueer, was arrested earlier by the Delhi Police in January this year.
Khan was wanted by the Delhi Police in connection with serial blasts in September 2008 in the national capital in which about 30 people were killed and over 100 injured. He was also wanted in the Batla House encounter in the same year in which Delhi Police Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma was killed.
He was an bomb-maker and a core member of the IM, He was involved in “conspiring and planning” Delhi, Jaipur and Ahmedabad blasts in 2008 carried out by the IM.