A day after its personnel shot dead one terrorist and took into custody two his accomplices in an encounter in Aurangabad, Maharashtra’s Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Tuesday arrested two moreIndian Mujihideen (IM) terror suspects in Buldhana district of eastern Maharashtra. Said to be aides of the trio i n v o l v e d i n M o n d a y ’s encounter with the ATS officials in Aurangabad, the twoterror suspects arrested from a hide-out in Buldhana were identified as Akheel Khilji and Mohammed Jafar. The police said that both Ahkeel and Jafar were residents of Khandwa district in Madhya Pradesh. They were arrested fol lowing t he infor mat ion given by Mohammed Abrar Babu Khan (32), one of the two terror suspects arrested at Aurangabad on Monday.
On Monday, the ATS officials had raided a slum locali t y H i m a y a t b a u g a r e a o f Aurangabad. In an encounter, they had with the three terror suspects, they gunned down one of them — identified as Khalil Khilji (20) — and arrested two others Mohammed Abrar and Mohammed Shakir. Apart from playing a role in the July 26, 2008 serial blasts in Ahmedabad that left 56 persons dead and over 200 injured, the three were wanted for the murder of a BJP leader Pramod Tiwari. The trio was also plottingto kill two of the three judges of the Allahabad high court who had delivered the verdict on the Ayodhya title dispute in September, 2010, informed ATS sources said. The Abrar-headed gang was carrying out robberies and using the booty for terror activities. The three-along with a few others — were planning to set up their base in Maharashtra. The ATS, which was in the know of their intent, was looking for them in the towns of Aurangabad, Buldhana and Jalna, for three months.
During the questioning, Abrar reportedly told the ATS officials about the presence of two of their aides in Buldhana. Without waiting any time, the ATS officials — along with the Buldhana police — swooped on the hide-out in Buldhana and arrested Akhil and Jafar.
Currently, the ATS officials are questioning the terr o r s u s p e c t s a r r e s t e d i n Aurangabad and Buldhana to ascertain if they had any plans to engineer subversive acts in Maharashtra.
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