Lucknow: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday arrested a member of Al-Qaeda involved in the plot to carry out the IED blast in Uttar Pradesh's capital Lucknow. An NIA official has given information in this regard on Tuesday (February 8, 2022). He said, Tauheed Ahmad Shah, a resident of Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, was arrested. Earlier, the NIA had arrested five accused in the case against whom the charge sheet was filed on January 5, 2022.

The NIA official said that the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh had arrested three suspected Al-Qaeda linked terrorists on July 14 last year. They were identified as Shakeel, Mo Mustaqeem and Mueed. The trio had hatched a conspiracy to recruit members for the Ansar Ghazwatul Hind (AGH), an affiliate of Al-Qaeda, to carry out the terror act in Lucknow.

The NIA officer also said that Tauheed was the mastermind behind the recruitment and carrying out terrorist activities in the name of AGH, including the purchase of weapons, ammunition and explosive materials used for the attacks in Uttar Pradesh.

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