Army Officer’s son arrested in Goa
The son of a retired Army officer, who was arrested by Goa Police after he was found loitering suspiciously at the Vasco Railway Station, had been gathering information about bomb blasts which have taken place across the country in the past, a senior police official said.
By : migrator
Update: 2016-02-04 20:38 GMT
Police have not been able to link him to any terror plot as per the investigations that have taken place till now. “The police have managed to decode the emails and documents of accused Sameer Sardana and has found that he was collecting information about past bomb blasts in the country,” a senior ATS official said.
The ATS and Intelligence Bureau, which have been interrogating the 44-year-old chartered accountant, cracked the password of his laptop which he had refused to divulge during questioning, the official said on condition of anonymity.
“(However), we have not been able to link him to any terror plot as per the investigations that have taken place till now. But inquiries are on,” the official said. Sardana is based in Mumbai and has worked for MNC firms like Accenture in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia.
Police investigations have also revealed that he is a Hindu by birth but has been practicing Islam.
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