Gujarat ATS arrested 4 ISIS terrorists at Ahmedabad airport. All four are Sri Lankan citizens.
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A ‘wanted’ handler of four Sri Lankan ISIS terrorists, who were taken into custody in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad, was arrested by the Lanka Police Intelligence on Friday.
46-year-old terror suspect Osman Pushparaja Gerard has been arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Colombo, Sri Lanka Police Spokesperson said.
Following the arrest of four suspects by the Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) for having links with the terrorist group ISIS, Sri Lanka launched a high-level investigation with the participation of two main intelligence branches of the police, the CID and the Terrorist Investigation . Division (TID) and other military intelligence services.
In the hunt for Osman or the coordinator of four ISIS suspects, Sri Lanka Police previously offered a cash reward of two million Sri Lankan rupees to any informant.
Sri Lankan police have so far arrested six suspects, including the handler who was linked to the four arrested in India.
Among the others arrested in Sri Lanka are: a suspect who had prepared a flag with the ISIS logo in front of which the suspects swore an oath, two other sworn candidates who originally planned to go to India but later refused (leaving two newly arrived to join the four arrested in Ahmadabad) and another suspect who managed the financial transactions.
On May 19, the ATS arrested four terror suspects who arrived on an Indigo flight from Colombo to Chennai.
Among the individuals arrested, Mohammed Nusrat, 35, who was involved in the sale of telecommunications devices and electrical equipment imported from Singapore, Malaysia and Dubai, had a criminal record.
In September 2020, he was arrested in Colombo for keeping heroin in his possession, while the other suspect, 27-year-old Mohammad Nafran, ran a business importing clothes and chocolates from India and Dubai.
In 2017, Nafran was arrested by the Sri Lanka Police under the National Gems and Jewelry Authority Act.
He was also the son of Mohamed Niyas Naufer, also known as ‘Potta Naufer’, a notorious underworld drug lord who was sentenced to death for the murder of a High Court judge in Colombo.
The other two suspects are Mohammad Faris, 35, and Mohammad Rashdeen, 43, both from Colombo who made their first visit to India.
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