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Two Al-Qaeda terror suspects arrested

Arrests come days ahead of I-Day

August 11, 2017 01:28 am | Updated 01:28 am IST - New Delhi

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NEW DELHI, 09/08/2017: Delhi Police with the arrested Al-Qaeda linked terrorist Syed Mohammed Zishan Ali, who was deported from Saudi Arabia. Delhi Police arrested him from the Delhi airport on his arrival from Saudi Arabia, in New Delhi on Wednesday. Photo: V. Sudershan

NEW DELHI, 09/08/2017: Delhi Police with the arrested Al-Qaeda linked terrorist Syed Mohammed Zishan Ali, who was deported from Saudi Arabia. Delhi Police arrested him from the Delhi airport on his arrival from Saudi Arabia, in New Delhi on Wednesday. Photo: V. Sudershan

Ahead of Independence Day, two men with suspected links to Al-Qaeda were arrested here in two separate cases, the police said on Thursday.

In the first case, the Delhi Police’s Special Cell arrested 29-year-old Syed Mohammed Zishan Ali. He was arrested on Wednesday after being deported from Saudi Arabia.

The police were on the lookout for the suspect ever since three alleged AQIS (al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent) operatives were arrested in 2015.

Raja-ul-Ahmed (25), with links to Al-Qaeda, was the other man arrested on August 1 after a tip-off was received from the West Bengal Police. A senior Delhi Police officer said Ahmed is wanted in a case of Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) by the West Bengal Police, who alerted their counterparts here about him.

Ahmed is a suspected member of Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), an Al-Qaeda inspired group in Bangladesh.

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