Bengaluru madrassa teacher held for al-Qaeda links

A madrassa teacher from Bengaluru has been arrested by Delhi Police for suspected links with al-Qaeda, making it the fourth arrest in its ongoing operation against the terror outfit

By :  migrator
Update: 2016-01-08 15:30 GMT

New Delhi

Maulana Anzar Shah was arrested in Bangalore by a team of Delhi Police’s Special Cell on Wednesday following which he was brought to Delhi on transit remand and produced before a court yesterday which sent him to custody till Jan 20, police said. In December, Delhi Police had arrested three operatives of al-Qaeda module in the India sub-continent. Shah had reportedly met the trio at a religious congregation in Bengaluru, following which he was made a logistics support  provider, sources said

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