Sayyed Faisal WahabLUCKNOW: Joint teams of the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (UPSTF) and Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) arrested another youth, Sayyed Faisal Wahab, a 20-year-old commerce graduate from Nashik for calling SHO Gomtinagar to release Kamran Ameen who was arrested for sending threat message to 'bomb UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath' on Monday.
Wahab was held from his bungalow in Zeenat Manzil, Darul-Islam Colony at Madina Chowk, in Nashik, Maharashtra on late Sunday night.
Uttar Pradesh: Mumbai youth held for threatening to kill Yogi Adityanath
Inspector general of police, UPSTF Amitabh Yash told TOI that Faisal’s father, Abdul Wahab was a lecturer at Ambika Pratap Narayan Law PG College in Basti, UP.
Yash said that it was a private college, while Faisal was taking lessons in ‘Wahabism’ from Madani Centre Masjid and Darul-Islam Bajranj Nagar in Ambad, Nashik, where his uncle was a trustee.
The officer added that soon after the arrest of Kamran Ameen, Faisal first called up SHO Gomtinagar asking him to release the former and also sent a message for the same at UP 112.
“We have got two-day transit remand of Faisal from local Nashik court on Monday. Now both Ameen and Faisal will be brought to Lucknow and grilled about their intention and motive behind the act,” the officer.
However, so far the police have not been able to find any criminal record of the duo.