Gorakhnath temple assault accused taken to Lucknow ATS headquarters for questioning

By PTI

LUCKNOW: Ahmad Murtaza Abbasi, the accused of the assault on safety personnel exterior Gorakhpur’s Gorakhnath temple, was delivered to the Anti-Terror Squad headquarters in Lucknow for questioning on Wednesday, officers mentioned.

Abbasi is at present in a seven-day police custody.

According to senior police officers, Murtaza will likely be quizzed about his actions and hyperlinks to folks behind the assault.

Additional Director General (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar mentioned, “We are trying to ascertain every aspect that led to the incident. The arrested accused links with people or organisations is also being looked into.”

Meanwhile, senior police officers have claimed that the 30-year-old chemical engineering graduate watched hate speech of Muslim hardliners on his laptop computer.

The investigators have seized the mentioned laptop computer and cell phone of the accused to gather digital proof.

The case is being investigated by a joint group of the Special Task Force (STF) and the Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) of the UP Police.

The investigators suspect that Abbasi was self-radicalised.

Officials are probing whether or not he was directed additional by any handler.

Abbasi, an IIT graduate, tried to enter the Gorakhnath temple premises on Sunday night.

When the safety personnel tried to cease him, he attacked them with a sickle, injuring two constables of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC).

Abbasi was quickly overpowered by different safety employees and arrested.

The safety employees seized the sickle used within the assault and a knife from his possession.

The Gorakhnath temple premises additionally has the residence of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who’s the top priest of the temple.

The CM was not within the temple on the time of the assault.

Searches have been carried out at totally different locations in Kushinagar, Siddarth Nagar and Maharjganj districts of East UP the place Abbasi had stayed within the latest previous.

Teams have additionally been despatched to Mumbai and Jamnagar in Gujarat.

As per senior police officers, Abbasi accomplished his training in Mumbai and later labored with a multinational agency in Jamnagar of Gujarat for a while.