AQIS operative and wanted by Delhi Police, Mohammad Usman lodged in Pal jail : UP Police
Mohammad Usman from Sambhal in UP was wanted by Delhi Police since December 2015
New Delhi, February 17
The Uttar Pradesh Police stated that an alleged operative of terror outfit Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and wanted by the Delhi Police, is now lodged in Pakistan’s Lahore Central Jail.
Identified as Mohammad Usman from Sambhal in UP was wanted by Delhi Police since December 2015.
The matter came to light when a team of Sambhal police visited Usman’s house in Deepa Sarai, Sambhal, following a request from a central agency to verify his address. However, the police teams were informed that he was lodged in Pakistan jail. Usman was granted consular access in December last year.
Usman remained absconding, the Delhi Police declared him a fugitive in 2016. His family claimed to the UP Police that Usman has been missing since 2012 as he has not returned home since then.
The UP Police added that they have information about Usman’s associate, Maulana Asim Umar, known to Indian security agencies as Sanaul Haq, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan’s Helmand province in September 2019. Asim Umar was also a resident of Deepa Sarai in Sambhal.
