'Forced guard to recite Kalma': Maharashtra's knife-wielding 'lone wolf' attacker wanted to join ISIS

NEW DELHI: A 31-year-old antheral accused of stabbing 2 information guards successful Maharashtra’s Thane territory is nether probe for what officials fishy could beryllium a “lone wolf” panic attack.The onslaught took spot successful the aboriginal hours of April 27 adjacent an under-construction gathering successful the Naya Nagar country of Mira Road, a suburb of Mumbai. According to police, the accused, identified arsenic Jabar Zubair Ansari, approached the guards connected work nether the pretext of asking for directions earlier returning and questioning them astir their religion, quality bureau ANI reported. Eyewitness accounts cited by investigators assertion that helium allegedly forced 1 of the guards to recite the Islamic Kalma and, erstwhile helium failed, attacked some men with a sharp-edged weapon, ANI reported.The victims, Rajkumar Mishra and Subroto Ramesh Sen, sustained superior injuries and were rushed to hospital. Mishra remains successful captious condition, portion Sen is undergoing treatment. Police said the battle unfolded aft an altercation, during which Ansari archetypal stabbed Mishra and past attacked Sen, who was nearby.Ansari was arrested wrong 90 minutes of the incidental aft being identified done CCTV footage.

A lawsuit has been registered nether provisions related to attempted murder, and the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has taken implicit the investigation, citing the seriousness of the lawsuit and the suspect’s background.Searches astatine Ansari’s residence person raised further concerns. Investigators reportedly recovered handwritten notes successful which helium expressed a tendency to articulation ISIS and described the onslaught arsenic a “first step” towards that goal.

Officials are besides examining worldly recovered connected his physics devices, including documents and videos, to find whether helium had immoderate interaction with extremist handlers oregon networks.According to officials, Ansari is simply a subject postgraduate who spent respective years successful the United States earlier returning to India successful 2019. He had been surviving unsocial successful Mira Road, wherever helium reportedly offered online chemistry coaching. Investigators judge his play of isolation whitethorn person contributed to online radicalisation, though they are continuing to analyse his integer footprint to found the grade of immoderate outer links.