Court sends Jamshedpur based Al Qaeda operative Zeeshan Ali to jail

Jamshedpur/New Delhi: Zeeshan Ali, an alleged al-Qaeda terrorist deported from Saudi Arabia earlier this month, has been remanded in judicial custody till September 21 in a case of terror funding.

Additional Sessions Judge Sidharth Sharma passed the order yesterday after he was produced before the court by the police following his custodial interrogation.

Twenty-nine-year-old Ali, son of Syed Riqubul Hider Ali is a resident of Holding No 40 on Road No 14, West Zakirnagar in Mango, Jamshedpur.

Zeeshan a relative of a 2007 Glasgow airport attack suspect, was deported from Saudi Arabia in connection with the case.

He is also accused of conspiring with other al-Qaeda members of organising and making provocative speeches to recruit Indian youths and establishing a base for the terror outfit.

After his deportation on the ground of visa violation, Ali was arrested by the Delhi Police on August 9 at the Indira Gandhi International Airport as there was a look out circular against him.

He was declared a proclaimed offender by a Delhi court on July 12, along with eleven others.

Their names were disclosed by five accused, arrested by the police earlier, as active cadres of the banned outfit operating in India from Pakistan and other countries and known as al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS).

The five, arrested between December 2015 and January 2016 from different parts of the country, were charged by the agency under the provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act

It may be noted that Zeeshan’s name was also mentioned in a charge sheet filed against the alleged AQIS accused persons.

Zeeshan�s brother Syed Mohammed Arshiyan, who was last spotted in Saudi Arabia, is also allegedly has links with international terror outfits. He is also wanted by the Indian agencies.

Zeeshan was the third suspected AQIS’ operative operative having base in Jamshedpur during the past two years.

Earlier on December 17, 2015, Abdul Sami (32) who is a resident of Dhatkidih in Bistupur was arrested by the Delhi police from Haryana.

Second suspected AQIS operative arrested was Masood Ahmed (38), also a resident of Dhatkidih on January 19, 2016.