New Delhi: A 27-year-old Bangladeshi-origin suspected al-Qaeda operative, who had come to India to allegedly train and radicalise Rohingyas for fighting the Myanmarese Army, has been arrested from east Delhi, the police said today.
Initially, the British national tried to mislead police by claiming that his real name was Shumon Haq. He even showed them a fake voter ID card issued from Kishanganj in Bihar but subsequently, he was identified as Samiun Rahman alias Raju Bhai, they said.
The Delhi Police’s Special Cell had been working to gain information about Rahman since July. The sleuths had learnt that a man named ‘Raju Bhai’ of the al-Qaeda terror group is trying to set up base in Delhi to carry out terrorist activities here.
The team of Special Cell deployed sources in the NCR and other states to get information on him.
It was further learnt that ‘Raju Bhai’ is in Delhi and is attempting to recruit people for the purpose of jihad, said Pramod Singh Kushwah, the DCP (Special Cell).
He was nabbed and later the police learnt his real name. A pistol of 9 mm calibre, laptop, mobile phones, American and Bangladeshi currency and Indian rupees were recovered from him.
He had fought in Syria as a member of Jabhat Al Nusra, an affiliate of al-Qaeda in Syria, against the Syrian government forces, the official said. In 2013, he was influenced by the ideology of al-Qaeda and joined it. While he was in Syria, their group came to know about the “atrocities” on Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar. With his Bangladeshi background, he was selected to raise a fighter group there. In 2014, he arrived in Bangladesh to radicalise youth to join al-Qaeda.
