ISIS flag, explosives found in UP house

New Delhi/Lucknow, Aug. 23: The Delhi police has recovered a large quantity of explosives and an ISIS flag from the house of Mohammad Mustakim Khan in Uttar Pradesh’s Balrampur two days after he was arrested in the national capital, officials said on Sunday.

An alleged ISIS operative, Khan, armed with two pressure cooker IEDs, was arrested in central Delhi’s Ridge Road area on Friday night following a brief exchange of fire.

A Delhi police special cell team took him to his Badhiyaa Bhaisaahi village in Balrampur district.

A brown jacket containing three explosive packets and a blue-check jacket containing four explosive packets were recovered from his house, a senior Delhi police officer said.

“Each explosives packet, removed from the jackets, was wrapped with transparent tape which contained explosives and cardboard sheet pasted with ball bearings, and electric wires were coming out from it,” deputy commissioner of police (special cell) P.S. Kushwah said in Delhi.

The police on Sunday conducted raids at several places. Two bicycle shop owners were among those questioned in Uttar

Pradesh, possibly over the origin of the ball bearings found by the police.

Khan’s father Kafeel Ahmed and wife Ayesha were also questioned, an official said.

Ayesha told a television channel that she had told Khan not to indulge in “wrong activities” but he did not listen to her. She appeared to be referring to activities that indicated he was being radicalised.