Al Qaeda linked terrorist produced in Surat court

Surat: The Surat police today produced a notorious terrorist linked with Al Qaeda in a local court here.

Surat police had taken the custody of Zafar Masood alias Guddu (37), a terrorist of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and Harkat ul Mujahideen, on transfer warrant and produced him in a magistrate court.

The police will now interrogate him in connection with the issuance of one of his four fake passports from here. Zafar was arrested by Delhi police from his home in Deepa Sarai in Sambhal town of Western Uttar Pradesh in December 2015 for his alleged links with the AIQS

The Special Operation Group (SOG) of the crime branch of Surat police had in September this year nabbed two persons for allegedly helping him get a passport on the basis of fake school leaving certificate and ration card. The duo identified as Yahya Gulam Mohammad Shaikh,( 61) and his nephew Parvez Gurumiya Saiyed (33) both residents of Rehmat Khan Jamadar Street in Rander area of the city, had helped Zafar get the passport on the basis of fake school leaving certificate and ration card.
He had stayed in Surat for almost two years in 2002-03. It was during this period that the duo helped him get a fake school leaving certificate and also a fake ration card. On the basis of these documents he got the passport issued. He used to stay with Yahya. The duo was earlier also interrogated by the intelligence bureau.

Zafar had provided funds to Mohammad Asif, another Sambhal resident who was arrested a few days before him last year and two others for going to Pakistan for terrorist training.

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