ATS analysing terror suspects’ phone and laptop chat details

LUCKNOW: Mobile phones and laptops of four terror suspects who were arrested from different parts of the country on April 20, are likely to reveal their countrywide network and beyond. The UP Anti Terror Squad (ATS) have sent their mobile phones and laptops for forensic examination. Their call details and chat details are also being analysed thoroughly.

The ATS officials were interrogating the four suspects Nazim arrested from Mumbai (Maharashtra), Ghazi Baba arrested from Jalandhar (Punjab), Mufti alias Faizan arrested from Bijnore (UP) and Zaqwan alias Ehtesham arrested from Narkatiyaganj (Bihar), during their police custody remand but they did not reveal much about their other links.

ATS inspector general (IG) of police Asim Arun said the suspects have been again sent back to jail in judicial custody on Saturday as they were not much cooperating during interrogation. He said their further custody remand would be sought from court after analysing details of their mobile phones and laptops. “They would be then cross questioned by putting their call details, chat and internet surfing history in front of them,” he emphasised.

The suspects are said to be the members of self-radicalised terror module busted in joint operation by the ATS with the help of police teams of five other states. The suspects were allegedly planning to execute some major terror operation in the west UP and other parts of the country.

The ATS officials stated the suspects had earlier revealed during quizzing that Pakistanborn Canadian writer and liberal activist Tarek Fatah was one of the six prime targets in different parts of the country on Thursday. They allegedly also had plans to target a Shia worship place in Amroha’s Naugawa Saadat, planting bomb at some crowded place in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, eliminate a police officer in Mumbai and set ablaze a sugar mill in Narkatiyaganj, Bihar.