This story is from January 25, 2020

Bihar: UP police raid Arwal village in search of a terror suspect

A joint team of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar police conducted raids in Arwal district on Friday in search of one Mohammad Mehmood alias Kalam for his alleged involvement in a terror funding case lodged in Gonda last year.
Bihar: UP police raid Arwal village in search of a terror suspect
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PATNA: A joint team of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar police conducted raids in Arwal district on Friday in search of one Mohammad Mehmood alias Kalam for his alleged involvement in a terror funding case lodged in Gonda last year.
Mehmood (28), a resident of Motha village under Town police station in Arwal district, is also suspected to be involved in the bomb blast on a private school premises at Bangaon under Gonda district of UP on July 20 last year.
Mehmood has been on the run since his name figured in the case.
The station house officer (SHO) of Arwal Town police station, Ranjeet Kumar Vats, said a police team led by RPF inspector Praveen Kumar sought cooperation for carrying out a raid on Mehmood’s village. “We cooperated with the UP police team in the operation,” he told this newspaper over phone.
According to police sources, the members of the raiding team, which consisted of RPF, vigilance and IT cell of UP police, quizzed the family members of Mehmood. A warrant of arrest is pending against him for having his close connections with those involved in terror funding from the UAE.
Mehmood’s name figured during interrogation of a suspect — Shahil Khan alias Md Ali — who was arrested from Bunkar Colony near Romania at Varanasi in August 2019. Shahil’s close aide Rasheed Ahmad, a resident of Ramgarh Dargah Sharif, was later arrested from Chunar in Mirzapur district.
“No incriminating documents were recovered from the house of Mehmood,” SHO Vats said, adding that the UP police returned after executing the warrant of arrest. The SHO, however, clarified that no case was pending against Mehmood in Arwal district.

Authoritative sources said gelatin rods and dynamites were used to blow up the boundary wall of Bright Future Public School in Gonda through remote control system on July 20 last year. “The investigating officers were taken aback by the latest technology used by the terror suspects in the incident,” a member of the visiting UP police team said.
An FIR was lodged on the statement of Shamsher Ahmad, stated to be the founder of the school. Detonator rods, gelatins, electric wire, battery boxes and a bag were seized from the spot.
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