Assam police team in UP to quiz Qamar-uz-Zaman

Guwahati (Assam), September 15, 2018:

A team of Assam Police is in Uttar Pradesh to interrogate Qamar-uz-Zaman who was recently arrested by the UP Police on the suspicion that he was a Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist.

The team, led by deputy superintendent of police Kakoli Banya Boruah, will interrogate Zaman and go to the rented house where he was staying.

Zaman, a resident of Assam’s Jamunamukh, was arrested on Thursday from Kanpur.

UP Director General of Police, OP Singh, said Zaman was planning an attack on Ganesh Chaturthi and based on specific inputs, he was arrested from Kanpur's Chakeri.

He said the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) was tracking him for the past few days leading to his arrest. The terrorist came under the police radar after he had posted a photo of him with an AK-47 rifle on social media. The police further added that he was trained in Pakistan last year.