3 ARRESTED FOR PLANNING TO KILL UP SHIA WAQF BOARD CHIEF

NEW DELHI: Three people were arrested for allegedly conspiring to kill Uttar Pradesh Shia Waqf Board Chairman Waseem Rizvi at the behest of gangster Dawood Ibrahim, police said here on Friday. The three accused -- Salim Ahmed Ansari (42), Abrar (36) years and Arif (38) -- were arrested from Bulandshahr by the Delhi Police special cell, they said. A Delhi court later sent them to five days police custody. In January, Rizvi had written letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Yogi Adityanath in which he claimed that madarsas bred terrorists and demanded that the Islamic institutions should be shut.

NEW DELHI: Three people were arrested for allegedly conspiring to kill Uttar Pradesh Shia Waqf Board chairman Waseem Rizvi at the behest of gangster Dawood Ibrahim, police said here today.

The three accused -- Salim Ahmed Ansari (42), Abrar (36) years and Arif (38) -- were arrested from UP’s Bulandshahr by the Delhi Police Special Cell, they said. A Delhi court later today sent the three men to five days police custody.

The Delhi police said that during the past few months, they had received inputs that Chotta Shakeel, under the directions from gangster Dawood Ibrahim, had been planning some subversive activities in India.

Subsequently, it was learnt

THE THREE ACCUSED— ARIF, ABRAR AND SALEEM WERE NABBED IN BULANDSHAHR

that one Salim from Bulandshahr had recently returned from Dubai and was in constant touch with Dubai-based underworld operatives, said PS Kushwah, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell). The activities of Salim were monitored which revealed that Salim along with his associates Arif and others was planning to kill Rizvi.