Mohammad Abdul Awwal arrested in Delhi by the UP Anti-Terrorist Squad

• Accused of funding terrorism

• More than 500 suspicious bank accounts are being investigated

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) – The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (UP ATS) apprehended Mohammed Abdul Awwal for alleged terror funding, at New Delhi’s Nizamuddin railway station on 20th December. Awwal is a member of the group that funds terror and intrusion. Originally from Assam’s Goalpara, Abdul Awwal has been residing in Delhi since 2018.

Awwal had illegally opened an account in the ‘Fino Bank’. He was receiving money from an NGO in this account. This NGO is receiving foreign funding under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) as a donation for social welfare works. According to a statement given by a UP ATS official on 19th December 2023, UP ATS is investigating more than 500 ‘suspicious’ bank accounts registered in NCR and Delhi. The money from NGOs reaches these accounts. UP ATS had recently received input that some people have prepared a syndicate. Through this, they used to hide the identity of illegal infiltrators and settle them in India based on fake documents. In this way, by providing financial help to such people, they were promoting anti-national activities. Based on this input, the ATS team had already arrested 5 accused. These accused included three Bangladeshis, Adilur Rahman Asrafi, Tania Mandal and Ibrahim Khan and two from Bengal, Abu Huraira Ghazi and Sheikh Najibul Haq. Abdul Awwal is the sixth accused caught in this connection. Accused Abdul Awwal used to take money from the bank accounts of the above-mentioned NGO. He used to transfer this money to accounts opened in a private bank in the names of citizens of Bangladesh and Myanmar living illegally in the country.

Editorial Perspective

The Government should hand out the death penalty to such traitors who are destroying the country.