Lucknow, The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad has arrested two males, together with one from Maharashtra, for allegedly conspiring to disrupt communal concord and promote anti-national actions by way of on-line platforms, together with WhatsApp and Instagram.
In keeping with a press launch issued by the ATS right here on Monday, the arrests had been made after a sustained digital surveillance operation revealed a WhatsApp group titled “Reviving Islam”, which had greater than 400 members principally Pakistani nationals and three group directors.
One of many members was discovered to be utilizing a telephone quantity based mostly in Uttar Pradesh, it stated.
The suspect was recognized as Ajmal Ali, from Dehra village close to Amroha in western Uttar Pradesh. ATS officers stated that Ajmal was propagating radical and anti-national ideology focusing on non-Muslim communities by way of a number of social media platforms.
Ajmal was summoned for questioning on the ATS headquarters, the place he allegedly confessed to being in contact with a number of Pakistani people through social media.
He additionally admitted to being mentored by an individual, recognized as Dr Usama Maj Sheikh, a resident of Badlapur space in Thane district of Maharashtra.
Usama, in accordance with the ATS, maintained communication with Ajmal through Instagram and the Sign messaging app. Their conversations included “extremist discussions about toppling India’s elected authorities and changing it with a Sharia-based system”.
He’s alleged to have incited Ajmal and others towards violent jihad as a part of a broader goal to ascertain “Ghazwa-e-Hind”, the ATS stated.
On August 1, a case was registered in opposition to Ajmal on the ATS police station in Lucknow beneath Sections 148 and 152 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita . He was taken into judicial custody, the company stated.
Based mostly on additional investigation, ATS operatives arrested Usama from Badlapur, Maharashtra, on August 4, in accordance with the assertion.
The ATS claims that each people had been “deeply concerned in on-line radicalisation efforts” and had been “making an attempt to impress younger Muslim males in opposition to non-Muslims, thereby encouraging anti-India prison actions”.
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