UP ATS arrests two persons involved in terror funding case

BAREILLY: UP ATS

has

arrested

two persons

related to

terror funding

case from

Izzatnagar area

of Bareilly

district

on Thursday. Both the accused are residents of Partapur village and their names were disclosed by the four accused

arrested

earlier by Lakhimpur Kheri police on October 10. The

case

had been handed over to the UP ATS.


Another accused, Mumtaz Hussain, who was also wanted in this case, had surrendered in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate in Lakhimpur city on Friday. He was sent to Lakhimpur district jail under judicial custody for 14 days. The

ATS

will now seek remand through court for further investigation in this case.

The accused arrested by ATS from Bareilly were identified as Sirajuddin and Faheem. Both of them belong to Partapur village which is one of the four villages in Bareilly suspected to be deeply involved in money laundering. The ATS have also recovered three mobile phones and a luxury car from the accused along with their identity cards.

ATS team was rigorously searching for Faheem, Sadakat Ali and Siraj in Bareilly and Mumtaz Hussain in Kheri after their names were revealed during interrogation of the four accused arrested earlier in Kheri district. Sadakat Ali is yet to be arrested by the ATS.

All the accused are charged under IPC sections 109/121 (A), 420 and section 17 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in the terror funding case. The accused allegedly used to collect money deposited into the accounts of people from Nepal and then forward the “funds” to their counterparts in Bareilly, who used to reportedly transfer the money to Delhi for “terror activities”. The account holders in Nepal used to get 5 % commission and the person who used to replace the Nepalese currency with the Indian one also used to get 5 %.

ADG, ATS, DK Thakur said, “Two persons arrested from Bareilly had lured the four accused nabbed earlier in Kheri district for transferring money to India from other countries. This case is still under investigation and we are trying to trace the source of the money.”


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