Terror suspect attended Delhi Police ‘deradicalisation programme’ in 2018

Rizwan’s house is located in central Delhi and he has four siblings — two younger brothers and two sisters. His father Abdul Haji is a retired librarian from JMI. “I retired in 2017. We were staying happily as a family when one day in 2018 the police knocked on my door and picked up my two sons — Rizwan and his younger brother. They alleged that my sons were involved in some wrongful activity, but released them after some days. Both my sons had attended their ‘deradicalisation programme’,” Haji told The Sunday Express.

A source in the Central intelligence agency said they got some leads in 2018 about six youths planning to join ISIS and frequently active with their handlers. “Six persons, including Rizwan and his younger brother, were picked up, but there was not enough evidence against them. It was decided to leave them after getting them to attend the ‘deradicalisation programme’,” said the source.

Haji said that after some months, his son left his studies and decided to start a business of selling women’s handbags. “Rizwan moved to Okhla, but his business did not work well and around two years ago, he moved to Pune. He also got married and started staying with his wife in Pune only. My second son moved to Shaheen Bagh where he started his property dealing business,” said Haji, who met with an accident two weeks ago outside his house and is now recovering at home.

“I was in constant touch with him (Rizwan) for the last two years and he told me that he was working in a computer-related business. He did not visit this house after moving to Pune but six months ago, I got unwell and asked him to stay with me.

Rizwan and his wife moved here. Two months ago, he left the house with his wife and after that police again started knocking on my door. They are again claiming that he was involved in some wrongful activity,” he said.
Haji alleged that police are framing his innocent son.

“Two years ago, they did not get anything against him, and now again, we are hoping that we will get justice.”

According to the NIA, their search began when one of the four suspects — Alam — was nabbed along with Mohammed Yusuf Khan (23) and Mohammed Yunus Mohammed Yakub Saki (24), both residents of Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh, by the Pune city police while they were allegedly trying to steal a vehicle from Kothrud area in on July 18 this year.