Ansarullah man held in India remanded
A court in India today granted transit remand for Abdullah Al Mamun, suspected member of Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) who was arrested in Uttar Pradesh yesterday.
A Chief Judicial Magistrate Gopal Tiwari of Muzaffarnagar districts granted the remand after he was produced by Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) before the court in Lucknow, the capital city of Uttar Pradesh for further investigation.
A team of ATS of India arrested Abdullah Al Mamon, 26, at Kutesara in Charthawal area following a tip-off, our New Delhi correspondent reports quoting Asim Arun, inspector general of state police in Lucknow, capital of Uttar Pradesh.
Police in Bangladesh said Abdullah, of Tarakandi upazila in Mymensingh, left for India in 2009.
Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit officials said Abdullah was not on their list of wanted militants but they were sharing information with their Indian counterparts.
A statement issued by the ATS said during interrogation, Abdullah disclosed that his primary job was to help ABT members get settled in India.
Indian police were searching three districts of Uttar Pradesh to see if there were any ABT sleeper cells there, the statement added.
Abdullah was living in the area for the last one month. He had told his neighbours that he was from Assam.
Before this, he had been residing in Darul Ulum Deoband, a leading Islamic seminary in Asia, in the Uttar Pradesh since 2011, said sources in the National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India.
Uttar Pradesh police chief Asim Arun said, “Abdullah also got his multi-purpose Aadhaar identity card and passport prepared on fake identity.”
He said, “Abdullah is associated with the ABT outfit and was involved in preparing fake identity proofs for terrorists, especially from Bangladesh, and he helped them get safe hideouts in India.”
Police claimed that they recovered four fake stamps and 13 fake ID cards from Abdullah's Muzaffarnagar home and that they were trying to locate those in whose names the cards were made.