Through PTI
LUCKNOW: Ahmad Murtaza Abbasi, the accused of the assault on safety body of workers outdoor Gorakhpur’s Gorakhnath temple, used to be delivered to the Anti-Terror Squad headquarters in Lucknow for wondering on Wednesday, officers stated.
Abbasi is lately in a seven-day police custody.
In line with senior police officers, Murtaza shall be quizzed about his actions and hyperlinks to folks at the back of the assault.
Further Director Common (Legislation and Order) Prashant Kumar stated, “We’re looking to confirm each and every facet that resulted in the incident. The arrested accused hyperlinks with folks or organisations may be being regarded into.”
In the meantime, senior police officers have claimed that the 30-year-old chemical engineering graduate watched hate speech of Muslim hardliners on his computer.
The investigators have seized the stated computer and cell phone of the accused to assemble virtual proof.
The case is being investigated through a joint group of the Particular Job Drive (STF) and the Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) of the UP Police.
The investigators suspect that Abbasi used to be self-radicalised.
Officers are probing whether or not he used to be directed additional through any handler.
Abbasi, an IIT graduate, attempted to go into the Gorakhnath temple premises on Sunday night time.
When the safety body of workers attempted to prevent him, he attacked them with a sickle, injuring two constables of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC).
Abbasi used to be quickly overpowered through different safety team of workers and arrested.
The protection team of workers seized the sickle used within the assault and a knife from his ownership.
The Gorakhnath temple premises additionally has the place of abode of Leader Minister Yogi Adityanath, who’s the pinnacle priest of the temple.
The CM used to be now not within the temple on the time of the assault.
Searches had been performed at other puts in Kushinagar, Siddarth Nagar and Maharjganj districts of East UP the place Abbasi had stayed within the fresh previous.
Groups have additionally been despatched to Mumbai and Jamnagar in Gujarat.
As consistent with senior police officers, Abbasi finished his schooling in Mumbai and later labored with a multinational company in Jamnagar of Gujarat for a while.