Three scholars — a mining engineer from NIT, an alumnus of Aligarh Muslim University with a PhD acceptance from Jamia Millia Islamia and a computer science engineer from Ghaziabad were arrested by the Special Cell for allegedly running an ISIS terror module that was to carry out attacks in Southern and Western India, police said on Monday.
The three have been identified as Mohd. Shahnawaz and Mohd. Arshad Warsi — both natives of Jharkhand, and Mohd. Rizwan Arshad, a native of Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, police said.
Special Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) HGS Dhaliwal said, the accused took an “oath of allegiance,” to commit terrorism and were highly educated and trained.
