Click to play videoNew Delhi: Police forces across the country are cracking the whip after serial blasts rocked India in the recent months. With the blasts probe gathering pace, the Delhi Police raided Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh.
According to the police all the alleged terrorists who were killed or picked up during Friday’s encounter in the Capital hail from Azamgarh district.
The police conducted raids at the houses of terror suspects Saif and Sajjid in Sanjarpur village in Azamgarh. The area has been cordoned off and police has beefed up security in the village.
Police questioned about six persons including two doctors – Dr Fakre Alam and Dr Javed along with his son and one of his nephews. The police also visited houses of four youths and collected photo albums and CDs from there.
The team had also brought one person to the village. However, the identity of the person was not known as he was masked.
SP of Azamgarh, Ramit Sharma, told CNN-IBN, “Six people were questioned on Tuesday in connection with the Delhi blasts probe. No detentions have been made so far. It was a joint operation of the Delhi Police and UP Police.”
The raids at Sanjarpur village follows Friday's killing of two alleged terrorists in an encounter in Jamia Nagar, south Delhi.
The small eastern Uttar Pradesh town seems to be fast emerging as a new terror hub and is allegedly home to a large number of SIMI activists.
The Gujarat serial blasts mastermind Abul Basher, Atif, who was killed in the Delhi encounter and Saif, who was arrested, all hail from the Sanjarpur locality in Azamgarh.
Meanwhile, Abdul Rehman, father of suspected terrorist Zia-ur-Rehman and arrested in connection with the serial blasts in the Capital, on Monday approached a city court seeking bail.
Abdul was arrested on Sunday from south Delhi's Jamia Nagar area for his alleged involvement in the five blasts on September 13 that killed 24 people and injured over 100.
He was the caretaker of the L-18 Batla House premises where suspected terrorists Atif and Sajid were gunned down by Delhi Police on Friday.
He was booked for criminal conspiracy and forgery and sent to 14-day judicial custody on Sunday.
Delhi Police teams have also been sent to Karnataka to unearth terror links.
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