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Bhubaneswar: Suspected Al-Qaeda facilitator Mohammed Abdur Rehman, who was arrested by a joint team of Delhi Police and Commissionerate Police Wednesday, is said to have had links with a terrorist involved in an attack on the Glasgow International Airport in Scotland in 2007, police said Thursday.
“According to a preliminary investigation by Delhi Police’s special cell, Rehman is thought to have had links with a Bengaluru-based man called Kafeel Ahmed, who had succumbed to burn injuries in a failed attempt to ram an explosives-laden jeep into the Glasgow International Airport in Scotland in 2007,” twin city police commissioner RP Sharma told the media.
The commissioner also informed that a case against Rehman was earlier registered at Cantonment Police Station in Cuttack over an incident that occurred at Shahi Quilla Mosque in February, 2011.
“Police had arrested him and had also framed a charge-sheet in this regard,” he said.
Rehman had a dispute with the local people near Killa Fort over establishment of a madrassa in Cuttack. He, however, shifted the plan to set up a madrassa in Tangi area after failing to get a place in Cuttack city, sources said. The Commissionerate Police are presently verifying the madrassa where around 80 children in the age group of 10-15 years, mostly from Jharkhand, are studying.
“We are now investigating the madrassa run by Rehman in Tangi of Cuttack district. We are also collecting information about Rehman’s close associates and their operations in Cuttack and other parts of the state,” Sharma said. Continued on P4