The Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad held and released two terror suspects matching sketch of Naved’s absconding aides.
The two residents of Sopore in Jammu and Kashmir were caught at songadh check-post on Gujarat-Maharashtra border and were handed over to Gujarat ATS.
They had come to Gujarat by train and were detained when they were on the way to Malegaon in Maharashtra by a bus.
— Himanshu Shukla, Superintendent of Police, Gujarat ATS
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had issued sketches of two absconding accomplices of Naved Yakub on Tuesday.
Zarghan alias Mohammed Bhai, aged about 38-40 years, and Abu Okasha, aged about 17-18 years, are suspected to be involved, along with Naved, in the attack on BSF convoy in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir on August 5.
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