India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) with the help of Uttar Pradesh’s Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) on Friday, arrested one accused, Abdus Sami Qasmi, for conspiring to form a terror organisation, in an ongoing investigation.
Qasmi, a resident of Seelampur in Delhi was arrested in Hardoi district in UP. A Non Bailable Warrant (NBW) against him had earlier been issued by the Special NIA court in New Delhi.
He has been brought to Delhi and will be produced before the NIA special Court on Saturday. Qasmi has been delivering provocative and inflammatory speeches in the support of ‘Caliphate’.
He also launched a few websites and uploaded inflammatory speeches on them; he was also involved in instigating and motivating youth for anti national activities across the country.
Qasmi runs a trust and madrassas and some of his financial transactions in this connection have been found to be of suspicious nature and the same are under investigation.
Friday’s arrest has brought the total number of such arrests by the NIA to 20 in the ongoing investigation to nab suspected militants.
Qasmi is in NIA remand for 10 days at present.
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