New Delhi: Wanted Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist Ariz Khan alias Junaid, in police custody in New Delhi on Feb 14, 2018. Personnel of the Delhi Police Special Cell on Wednesday arrested Khan from Banbasa in Uttarakhand, where he had come to meet his accomplices. He had been on the run since the 2008 Batla House encounter. According to the police, Khan is an expert bomb-maker, executioner and conspirator, and had been wanted for his involvement in various bomb blast cases in Delhi, Jaipur, Ahme
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New Delhi: Wanted Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist Ariz Khan alias Junaid, in police custody in New Delhi on Feb 14, 2018. Personnel of the Delhi Police Special Cell on Wednesday arrested Khan from Banbasa in Uttarakhand, where he had come to meet his accomplices. He had been on the run since the 2008 Batla House encounter. According to the police, Khan is an expert bomb-maker, executioner and conspirator, and had been wanted for his involvement in various bomb blast cases in Delhi, Jaipur, Ahme
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) Personnel of the Delhi Police Special Cell on Wednesday arrested a wanted Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist from near the Nepal border. He had been on the run since the 2008 Batla House encounter here, police said.According to the police, terrorist Ariz Khan alias Junaid is an expert bomb-maker, executioner and conspirator, and had been wanted for his involvement in various bomb blast cases in Delhi, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Uttar Pradesh.Khan was arrested from Banbasa in Uttarakhand, where he had come to meet his accomplices.Around 165 people died in the incidents of crime that Khan was involved in, the police said, adding that he was present along with four others in Batla House during the encounter but had managed to escape.After the Batla House incident, he stayed in India for some time before fleeing to Nepal. Some of Khan's accomplices had links with the Islamic State -- the radical Islamist group, the police said.--IANSsp-spk/nir/bg
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