Gujarat ATS arrests two from Rajkot and Bhavnagar for alleged links with ISIS

Rajkot: Two persons suspected for having links with ISIS are held from Bhavnagar and Rajkot by Ahmedabad based team of Anti Terrorist Squad(ATS) of Gujarat Police. They are identified as Vaseem and Naeem Ramodia. They are brothers and son of cricket umpire Arif Ramodia who retired from Saurashtra University recently. Ramodia family lives in Naherunagar area of Rajkot. Police has captured 10 Crude bombs, 90 gram gun powder, masks and computer from their possession. It is learnt that both brothers have passed Computer Application course. They were in process to target Chotila temple. Vaseem had visited Chotila temple too recently.

According to DySP KK Patel of ATS: For last one and half year these two persons were under watch of ATS as they were in contact with ISIS through twitter/Facebook accounts and telegram. After prolong surveillance we found that they were trying to execute a lone wolf attack and in process to do a bomb blast in couple of days. Last midnight ATS formed two teams and raided Bhavnagar and Rajkot. Their computers and mobile phones had some prohibited literature. Gun powder, battery, masks, crude bombs are also recovered from them. Offense has been registered and probe is on. Tomorrow their remand will be sought for further probe.

JK Bhatt, another officer of ATS said pen drives, audio talks, Jihadi literature, bomb making manual etc have also been recovered from them. Vaseem was from Rajkot while Naeem was from Bhavnagar. They were under watch since 2015. We had collected information regarding them. Younger one Naeem had studies BCA. He was doing job in Alang near Bhavnagar Elder one Vaseem was in Rajkot and doing graphic designing work according to father Arif Ramodia.

Gujarat ATS SP Himanshu Shukla said a press conference on this capture will be held at 5.00 pm today to share more details. When asked whether they were to target Chotila temple, Shukla said the detail is correct.

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