On May 20, the Gujarat Police’s Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) arrested four terrorists at Ahmedabad’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport. According to the local police, all the arrested terrorists are residents of Sri Lanka and are associated with the Islamic State.
Following the arrests of the Islamic State terrorists, the ATS has initiated an investigation. They are currently interrogating the detainees to ascertain their purpose for arriving in Ahmedabad. Efforts are ongoing to uncover their intentions for being in the state.
During the preliminary investigation, the ATS discovered that the Islamic State terrorists travelled from Sri Lanka to Ahmedabad via Chennai. The Gujarat ATS apprehended them before they could reach their intended target. Additionally, it was revealed that these terrorists were awaiting instructions from their handlers in Pakistan, who were supposed to supply them with weapons for their planned attack. The ATS has also recovered encrypted chats from the terrorists’ phones.
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The recent arrest of four ISIS terrorists in Gujarat follows closely after the Surat Police detained Maulvi Sohail Abubakar. Abubakar was apprehended for allegedly plotting the assassination of several prominent figures, including suspended Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Nupur Sharma, Goshamahal’s MLA T Raja Singh from Hyderabad, Sudarshan News editor-in-chief Suresh Chavhanke, and Sanatan Sangh national chairman Updesh Rana, who is also a social media activist.
On May 12, the Ahmedabad airport received a bomb threat email, which turned out to be a hoax after security personnel searched the airport complex, but nothing suspicious was found. The threat email was sent by an unidentified person on the official email ID of the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in the afternoon, following which the security personnel at the airport scanned the entire airport, said Commissioner of Police GS Malik.
In August last year, the ATS arrested three persons from Rajkot for their alleged links to Al Qaeda. They were prima facie working for a Bangladeshi handler to radicalise and recruit people for the banned terrorist organisation.
