Haryana (Islamist/Other Conflicts): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2016

One person, identified as Pappu Patel, a resident of Bihar, has been arrested in Friends colony market area of Faridabad (Haryana) along with Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) worth INR 17,000 on January 13, reports Business Standard. A case has been registered against the man and further probe was underway, police said. Read less...

The special cell of the Delhi police on January 18 arrested a 32-year-old electrician, identified as Abdul Sami, from Mewat in Haryana for his alleged links with al Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) module that was busted in December 2015, reports Hindustan Times.Sami allegedly had undergone a year-long training at Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) training camps in Mansehra in Pakistan.The arrest of Abdul Sami took the total number of suspected AQIS militants arrested in India in the last one month to five. The other four suspected AQIS operatives included the terror outfit’s India chief Mohammad Asif, madrassa teacher Abdur Rehman, fund raiser-cum-recruiter Zafar Masood and former imam of Bengaluru’s Masjid-e-Noorani, Maulana Syed Anzar Shah. The four arrests have been made from Delhi, Cuttack in Odisha, Bengaluru in Karnataka, and Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh, the police said. Read less...

Two men, suspected to have links with al Qaeda have been arrested from Haryana's Mewat District in a joint operation by Delhi Police and a central intelligence agency, Mewat Police on January 19 said, reports Bangalore Mirror. The suspected terrorists have been identified as Mohamad Qasim and Abdul Sami, residents of Jamshedpur District in Jharkhand, the latter believed to be a key operative of the banned terror outfit, who allegedly received arms training in Pakistan. Qasim and Sami had reached Punhana subtown in Mewat District two days ago and were residing in a mosque situated on Punhana Hodal Road, Punhan Police said."During interrogation, the sleuths found Qasim and Sami hesitant while revealing their identities and their objective of visiting Punhana, after which they were arrested", Deputy Superintendant of Police (DSP) Punhana Ratandeep Bali said.Sami was allegedly mentored by Abdul Rahman, a madrasa (Islamic Seminary) cleric who was earlier arrested from Jagatpur area of Cuttack in Odisha, in December 2015 by a Special Cell team, a senior Delhi Police official said. While Sami has been arrested, the other two, identified as Abu Sufian and Umar Hyderabadi are still believed to be in Pakistan, the official added.He further said, Sami left for Dubai in January 2014, he stayed there for a month before moving to Karachi (Sindh, Pakistan). From there, he went to Mansehra, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, where he received training in handling AK 47 and light machine guns. Sami's movements were being coordinated by a handler, identified as Yusuf, from Pakistan. Read less...