Ahmedabad: The Gujarat Anti-Terror Squad is investigating the four ISIS terrorists who were arrested from the city’s airport last week. During the probe, the ATS has learned that all four accused are trained in handling weapons. Two out of these four terrorists have a past travel history to India and had been previously apprehended in other cases.

The Gujarat ATS arrested Nusrath Ahmed Gani, Nafran Naufer, Faris Faruq, and Rasdeen Abdul Raheem on May 20th. These accused are in police custody. Now, the ATS has revealed that during the interrogation, when the ATS officials handed over the pistol to the four, each accused loaded the magazine in the pistol and also unlocked and locked the gun. Thus, it is clear that they had received weapons training.

It is learned that when presented with documents in both English and Gujarati, the accused hesitated to sign any papers. However, after translating and reading them in their native language using Google Translate, they agreed to sign them for the government lawyer.

ATS’s Sunil Joshi told the media that Nusrath Gani had been apprehended twice for gold smuggling at Mumbai airport in the past three to four years. Additionally, he was implicated in a case involving causing grievous injury to someone with stones, resulting in his detention at Welikada jail in Colombo, Sri Lanka, for approximately eight to ten days in 2012. Joshi mentioned that Gani was also held at Negombo police station for a day in 2022 after being caught with crystal MD.

Faruq had also been incarcerated from January 1 to February 14 of the current year in a drug-related case.

In the case of Nusrath, there have been no official criminal records, but he had engaged in minor smuggling activities such as transporting clothes from Mumbai to Sri Lanka and participating in gold smuggling between Sri Lanka and Dubai.

Raheem had been imprisoned for house robbery in Colombo in 2014 and had been involved in three cases of selling narcotics and psychotropic substances in Colombo in 2009, 2022, and 2023.

According to ATS officers, the men were allegedly planning a suicide attack in Gujarat, pending approval from their Pakistani handlers. However, the specific timing and target of the attack remain undisclosed. DeshGujarat