JeM terrorist carrying bounty of Rs 2L arrested

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JeM terrorist carrying bounty of Rs 2L arrested

Wednesday, 15 May 2019 | Staff Reporter | NEW DELHI

The Delhi Police has arrested an alleged terrorist of  Jaish-e-Mohammad from Srinagar who was carrying a reward of Rs 2 lakh. Identified as Abdul Majeed Baba, he was acting on the instructions of his handlers, sitting across the borders.

It has been revealed that the accused along with associates Fayyaz and Bashir came to Delhi  in 2007 to deliver a consignment of arms, ammunition and explosives to Pakistani terrorist Shahid Gafoor but all were arrested after shootout with team of Delhi Police Special Cell.

Abdul Majeed Baba is a resident of Magrepora district of Sopore in Jammu & Kashmir. The arrest was made on Saturday evening from Soura in downtown Srinagar. Baba will be produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Srinagar and brought to Delhi on transit remand.

According to Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Special Cell, on February 4, 2007, on specific inputs the sleuths of Special Cell of Delhi Police apprehended four terrorists of JeM identified as Shahid Gafoor a resident of Siyalkot in Pakistan, Bashir Ahmed Ponnu a resident of  Baramullah in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), Fayaz Ahmed Lone a resident of Kupwara (J&K) and Abdul Majid Baba after a brief encounter at Deen Dayal Upadhayay Marg, Delhi.

“Police has also recovered three kilogram (kg) of highly explosive material, four detonators, one timer, six hand grenades, one pistol of .30 bore, one magazine with two live cartridges, Indian currency Rs 50 thousand and fake US currency $-10 thousand from their possession. Subsequently a case under section 121/121A/122/123/186/353/307/489 B/489 C/120 B of Indian Penal Code (IPC), 4/5 Explosive Substances Act, 25/27 Arms Act, 14 Foreigners Act and 17/18/20/21/23 Unlawful Activities(Prevention) Act was registered at special cell police station,” said the DCP.

“On August 7, 2013, ASJ Court convicted accused Shahid Gafoor and acquitted Bashir, Fayyaz and Abdul Majid Baba. On appeal against their acquittal the High Court of Delhi convicted all the three terrorists. After being convicted, accused Bashir, Fayaz and Baba did not surrender before the High Court of Delhi and deliberately avoided their arrest. Thereafter, High Court issued Non-Bailable Warrants against them several times since 2014 but none turned up,” said the DCP.

“A reward of Rs. 2 Lakh was declared by Delhi Police upon the arrest of each of the absconding three accused person. On March 25, 2019, one of the three accused Fayaz was arrested by police team of Special Cell in Srinagar. After the arrest of accused Fayyaz, efforts were continued to arrest the remaining other two terrorists,” said the DCP.

“With the arrest of Fayyaz, accused Baba had got extra conscious and started continuously changing his hideouts to dodge the police net. For the last two months, Special Cell team had conducted several raids on accused’s traced hideouts with the help of local police and army, but each time he managed to escape the police dragnet. It was learnt that he was planning to escape to Pak-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) when on May 11, specific input was received that accused Baba will visit Shere-e-Kashmir Institute Medical Sciences Hospital in Shoura area in Srinagar,” said the DCP.

“Acting on the tip-off a trap was laid and accused was arrested. He has been brought to Delhi on transit remand for further legal proceedings,” said the DCP.

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