{"id":285204,"date":"2018-02-14T17:51:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T12:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=285204"},"modified":"2018-02-14T17:51:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T12:21:48","slug":"delhi-police-arrest-indian-mujahideen-militant-who-escaped-batla-house-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-police-arrest-indian-mujahideen-militant-who-escaped-batla-house-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Police arrest Indian Mujahideen militant who escaped Batla House encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Junaid-1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-285205 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Junaid-1-289x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Junaid (1)\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"285205\" \/><\/a>Ariz Khan, 32-year-old bomb maker of terror group Indian Mujahideen was arrested from Nepal on February 13, informed a senior Police officer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ariz Khan aka Junaid was arrested from the India-Nepal border after the special cell got a tip-off, said DCP Pramod Kumar Kushwaha of Delhi Police\u00a0while speaking to the media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;He was involved in several terror attacks including the 2008 Delhi serial blasts. Around 165 people died in attacks in which he was involved,\u201d said Kushwaha.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khan, who carried a bounty of Rs 15 lakh on his head was one of the militants who escaped from Delhi&#8217;s Batla House on\u00a0\u00a0September 19, 2008 while two Indian Mujahideen terrorists were killed in the encounter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the DCP, after the escape, Khan remained in India for a month before fleeing to Nepal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;There he lived with Tauqeer aka Abdul Subhan Qureshi, who is his superior. After living in Nepal for a few years, both left for Saudi Arabia,&#8221; the police officer informed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khan and Tauqeer returned to the subcontinent in 2017 in order to revive the SIMI (Student Islamic Movement of India).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ariz Khan, 32-year-old bomb maker of terror group Indian Mujahideen was arrested from Nepal on February 13, informed a senior Police officer. Ariz Khan aka Junaid was arrested from the India-Nepal border after the special cell got a tip-off, said DCP Pramod Kumar Kushwaha of Delhi Police\u00a0while speaking to the media. &#8220;He was involved in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":285205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39],"tags":[515,516,517,518,519,520],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}