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The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) revealed that Pune-based bundle technologist Zubair Hangargekar (37), arrested connected October 27, had links with the panic radical al-Qaeda, and was preaching to younker that “democracy is against Shariat” and created contented connected topics, including Jihad and “Ghazwa-e-Hind”, the takeover of the Indian subcontinent by a Caliphate.
According to the ATS, Zubair created “extremist content” and shared extremist worldly connected Ghazwa-e-Hind, the constitution of the Khilafat, and the implementation of Shariyat connected his ain Telegram groups involving younker and like-minded individuals. The ATS highlighted that these younker discussed replacing ideology with Shariyat and dissolving nationalist boundaries by moving for a “united planetary Ummah”.
A elder ATS serviceman from Pune said, “The concealed Dars sessions were conducted successful Pune, Solapur, and Thane to radicalise youth. During these sessions, helium lectured them connected ‘ways to perpetrate jihad’ and the way to bring Khilafat.”
Zubair, who holds a B.E. grade from Walchand Institute of Technology, Solapur, was arrested from Pune’s Kondhwa country during the ATS raids successful October for his alleged links with the al-Qaeda. During the raid, 18 individuals were searched, and their devices were sent for forensic examination. Zubair was arrested connected October 27 and remanded successful judicial custody till November 28.
Magazines seized
During the investigation, constabulary seized respective al-Qaeda and AQIS magazines and manuals connected gathering IEDs from his laptop and mobile phone, glorifying jihad and martyrdom done jihad. “These magazines openly impulse readers to found Khilafat regularisation successful India done convulsive jihad. He work contented produced by extremist preachers from the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Pakistan and studied large al-Qaeda attacks successful depth, including the 9/11 attack,” the Pune ATS serviceman said.
According to the ATS, helium had a 15-year vocation arsenic a bundle technologist and turned to extremism astir 2015, erstwhile helium came into interaction with known terrorism-linked individuals successful Pune and Hyderabad.
