NEW DELHI, Aug 3:
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today filed a supplementary charge sheet before a special court in Lucknow against an alleged member of the Al-Qaeda terror outfit.
The charge sheet against Tawheed Ahmad Shah, a resident of Aribagh-Machowa area of central Kashmir’s Budgam district, was filed before the NIA special court in Lucknow in a case related to the attempts by the global terror organisation to recruit members for the Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), an official said.
Earlier on January 5 this year, the NIA had arrested and charge sheeted five accused persons in the case which was initially registered on January 10, 2022 at the Anti-terrorist Squad Gomti Nagar Police Station. The case was reregistered by the federal agency on July 29, 2021.
An NIA spokesperson said the case was registered on inputs that Umar Halmandi, an Al-Qaeda member based on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border was radicalising and recruiting personnel for the AQIS.
He was accused of raising an Al-Qaeda module and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGH), an extended outfit of proscribed terrorist outfit, in Lucknow to carry out terrorist acts, the NIA said. (PTI)
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