A.P. Police arrest two persons from U.P., Maharashtra for terror links

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Sathya Sai territory  Superintendent of Police S. Sarish Kumar.

Sathya Sai territory Superintendent of Police S. Sarish Kumar.

Sri Sathya Sai territory constabulary person arrested 2 persons for their alleged links with panic operatives. The 2 were recovered to beryllium members of WhatsApp groups tally by Pakistan-based violent organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed, the constabulary said.

One of the accused hails from Uttar Pradesh and the different from Maharashtra.

The constabulary earlier arrested a 40-year-old man, Kotwal Noor Mohammed, from Dharmavaram for having links with JeM. Mohammed was a subordinate successful the WhatsApp groups operated by the JeM and was participating successful Jihadi and extremist activities successful India.

Superintendent of Police S. Satish Kumar told mediapersons connected Friday that further probe pursuing the apprehension of Mohammed, and based connected quality information, they person arrested the 2 persons.

The SP said the A.P. Police on with the Uttar Pradesh Police conducted a hunt cognition successful Amroha and arrested Sajad Hussain connected October 13 and recovered physics gadgets and Jihadi worldly from him. Subsequently, a azygous tube firearm was besides seized from his residence astatine Jamparva. The firearm belonged to a comparative of the accused and had been utilized for Jihadi activities. Hussain was studying the Aleem people successful a madrasa.

On the aforesaid day, with the assistance of the Maharashtra ATS, the A.P. Police arrested Toufeeq Alam Shaik from Nashik and seized physics gadgets and Jihadi worldly from him.

The 2 accused person been brought to Dharmavaram and would beryllium produced earlier the court, the SP said.

“Both of them are recovered to beryllium progressive members of WhatsApp groups and channels of JeM. They were readying to radicalise younker and besides instrumentality subject grooming successful Pakistan to wage a warfare against India,” helium said.

The duo besides had links with the Popular Front of India (PFI), a banned organisation successful India, and immoderate different banned violent organisations, helium said. “The accused were indulging successful panic operations nether the guise of societal service. They were besides playing a cardinal relation successful encouraging Muslim younker to instrumentality the way of terrorism,” Mr Satish Kumar said.

Any idiosyncratic having links with panic groups oregon ISI handlers oregon Jihadi organisations and are portion of their societal media groups volition beryllium treated arsenic participants successful anti-national enactment and enactment volition beryllium taken against them nether UAPA and different applicable Acts, helium said.

The constabulary person kept a strict surveillance connected Pakistan-based societal media groups, the SP said and cautioned Muslim younker to support distant from inciteful societal media groups and posts.

The SP appealed to radical to pass the constabulary astir immoderate anti-national posts that effort to radicalise youth.

Published - October 17, 2025 10:21 p.m. IST

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