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Five arrested for terror funding, links with Pakistan's ISI in Madhya Pradesh

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BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh police have arrested five persons for alleged involvement in terror-funding case linked to Pakistan's ISI.

The Crime Branch has arrested these accused--Balram Singh, Bhagvendra Singh, Shubham Tiwari and Sunil Singh. The name of the fifth person is yet to be ascertained. 

Two of these persons, Balram and Bhagvendra were arrested two years ago, as well, when the first such case had come to fore in the Vindhya region of Madhya Pradesh. 

The police had been keeping an eye on the activities of the suspects and arrested them from different locations in Satna.  Over a dozen Pakistan SIM cards, laptops and cell phones with numbers of the neighbouring country were recovered from the arrested accused.

The police officials confirmed the arrests and said that the accused were constantly in touch with Pakistan and got money from their sources through bank accounts and transferred the cash to terror suspects. Money was sent to other suspicious persons in the racket in other states through hawala links.

When Balram was arrested in 2017, it was found that an illegal telephone exchange was run. However, he later got bail and was released. Once again, he was arrested in a loot case and got bail. Another accused was also arrested by ATS in the past. The police officials are conducting investigation. 


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Carbine used to fire at jeweller was robbed from UP MLA's gunman

CHHINDWARA: The carbine that was used to fire at a jeweller and later others in Chhindwara in MP, belonged to a UP legislator's gunman and had been looted.

This has been revealed during the course of investigation. The jeweller has survived and the shooter has been arrested. However, it was found that he had got it from the gunman of a UP MLA, sometime ago. 

The incident had occurred in Chhindwara. An armed man carrying the submachine gun stormed into jeweller's showroom, shot him in the stomach. When others came, he fired in the air. He tried to run away but because motorcycle couldn't start, he failed to escape and was overpowered by the crowd.

The injured jeweller is undergoing treatment. The goon was carrying a machine gun, carbine. The accused, Sandeep Kumar, had fired thrice. He had ntered Durga Shree jewellers, carrying the carbine. asking jeweller to hand over ornaments.

When the jeweller refused Sandeep Kumar began firing, one of the bullets hit the victim, Sohan Tamrakar, 32, in the stomach.The goon ran out and kicked the bike but after multiple attempts bike didn't start and people with lathis attacked him.

He was caught and handed to police, later. Now, he is being quizzed and a team is arriving from UP to ask about the procurement of the looted carbine. Investigation is on in the case. 

[January 18, 2023 NewsBits.in]

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