Suspected IM terrorist arrested in UP

LUCKNOW: A suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist believed to be involved in Lucknow and Ahmedabad blasts was arrested by Anti Terrorist Squad of Uttar Pradesh Police on Monday.

On Saturday, the investigators tracing the financiers of terror modules in Uttar Pradesh had appeared to have stumbled upon a complex jigsaw related to the funding of terror groups.

They found that apart from Hawala networks, funds were also being routed through bank accounts in the form of drafts, making it all the more difficult for IB sleuths to trace the real source of such finances.

ATS sources said that one of the suspected financiers, an Azamgarh-based businessman, is learned to have provided Rs 1 lakh to the terror module busted in Delhi. These funds were used by the module to coordinate their terror plans.

"Apart from Hawala, it seems these people have used their business bank accounts to forward the cash," said a senior ATS officer.