Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) has arrested suspected ISIS terrorist Abu Zaid from the Mumbai Airport, said an ATS official here on Sunday.
According to ADG (Law and order) Anand Kumar, Zaid was arrested early Saturday on his arrival from Saudi Arabia.
He said that Abu Zaid was arrested by the ATS team from Mumbai Airport on Saturday after he came from Saudi Arabia.
The police official said that Zaid was residing in Riyadh and formed a social media group to allegedly radicalise youths and lure them to ISIS.
He will be brought to Lucknow on a transit remand and will be produced in the court.
“On being produced in court, we will seek his police custody for interrogation,” said the ADG.
Zaid’s name had cropped up during interrogation of four arrested alleged ISIS terrorist Umar alias Nazim, Ghazi Baba alias Muzammil, Mufti alias Faizan and Jakawan alias Eihtesham in April by the ATS.
The police official said that the suspects used to talk via an application on the Internet and Zaid was their ideologue.