Agencies / Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh ATS has arrested two alleged Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists posing as students and involved in recruiting for the group from Deoband in Saharanpur district.
According to Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police O P Singh told media that Shahnawaz Ahmad Teli from Kulgam and Aquib Ahmad Malik from Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir were arrested from the seminary town on Thursday night and .32 bore pistols along with cartridges recovered from them, Singh told reporters.
The operation was headed by IG Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) Asim Arun.
Teli and Malik, aged between 20-25 years, were living in Deoband and posing as students without taking admission anywhere, Singh said.
They were on their job to recruit for the JeM, which has claimed responsibility for the February 14 terror attack in Pulwama in which 40 CRPF soldiers were killed, he said.
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