By TwoCircles.net Staff reporter,
Delhi: Following inquiry of alleged Al-Qaeda operatives Abdul Rahman and Mohammed Asif in Delhi, Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Gujarat has re-opened the files of 14 teenagers who went missing after the 2002 communal riots.
Gujarat ATS officials quizzed arrested duo in Delhi for two days-Monday and Tuesday-and are now suspecting that the missing youths, some of whom are from riot-affected north and south Gujarat districts, could have turned radical.
After the 2002 pogrom, 14 youths from riot-affected areas of Gujarat, primarily from Ahmedabad, went missing.
Times of India reports one of the police official as saying, “Our teams are working on the inputs gathered from the questioning of Asif and Rahman and also on alerts from central intelligence agencies.”
“There is a suspicion that the missing youths could have turned radical”, he added.
Asif was arrested by special cell of Delhi Police from Saleempur in northeast Delhi and Rahman was subsequently nabbed from Cuttack in Odisha. Special cell allege duo to be members of Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS).