‘Terror suspect’ may have used college as a hideout
(Lone) was not seen in class much. I remember he had submitted his final year civil engineering project on a topic related to concrete. His final percentage was between 60%62%. We never thought any of our students would be in the news for terror affiliations. SHARAD KUMAR, head of the engineering department in Shri Venkateshwara University
AMROHA (UTTAR PRADESH): At the DNS College of Engineering in Uttar Pradesh’s Amroha, Saturday was a little different from any other day.
The college, which operates from a nondescript building and has 500 students, witnessed a constant stream of visitors. Almost all of them were policemen.
Personnel of the Uttar Pradesh police’s intelligence unit and the Centre’s Intelligence Bureau, along with the local cops, had swarmed the college to gather details about Parvaiz Rashid Lone, a former student who was arrested from a bus stop in old Delhi on Thursday night. Police claimed he had links with the Jammu & Kashmir unit of the Islamic State (ISJK).
The last time Lone was spotted in Amroha was on Tuesday. “We suspect that Lone had used his college as a hideout to spend the night, before he returned to Delhi to board a bus to Jammu,” said a police officer present at the college on Saturday.
A manager at the DNS said it was around 11.30 pm that Lone came to the college with a young man. “Lone said the man wanted admission in DNS using his reference. Since Lone was our student in 2012 and had also taught at a school here for a few months in 2017, we allowed him to stay the night. The next day, they left after lunch. In the afternoon, he called one of our teachers, Bashir Ahmad Dar. Dar was picked up by the local police on Friday when they traced Lone’s calls,” said the manager, requesting anonymity.