LeT SUSPECT DEPORTED FROM SAUDI ARRESTED

: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday said it has arrested a terror suspect linked to proscribed terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) following his arrival from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to the national capital.

In the last few years, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia has sent back more than half a dozen terror suspects to India after verifying their antecedents. Prominent among them being Abu Jundal alias Zabiuddin Ansari, one of the alleged handlers of the 26/11 Mumbai attackers and the alleged Indian Mujahideen operative Fasih Mehmood.

The NIA officials said the terror suspect named Habibur Rahman was one of the handlers of LeT terrorist Shaikh Abdul Naeem who was initially arrested in 2007.

Naeem later escaped from custody while he was being taken for court attendance to Maharashtra from Kolkata in August, 2014.

“After his escape from custody, Naeem again started his nefarious activities on the directions of his handlers based in Pakistan and in Saudi Arabia. A well-established conspiracy was hatched for targeting vulnerable locations in India,” said NIA spokesman Alok Mittal.

Mittal added that Naeem was tasked to identify locations where terrorist attacks could be carried out. For this purpose, he assumed fake identities and visited different states.