The Uttar Pradesh police have arrested an Azamgarh-resident on the suspicion of plotting terror attacks in the country.
The suspect, identified as Abu Zaid, was arrested by a team of the UP Anti-Terror Squad from the Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport in Mumbai on Saturday night.
Zaid was returning from Saudi Arabia, the ATS said.
According to the ATS, Zaid, who was living in Saudi Arabia, induced and mobilised members in India for a terror module.
Zaid's name came into light, an ATS spokesperson said, during investigation of the four youths who were arrested in an premptive operation from different parts of the country in April.
"Solid evidence" of Zaid's culpability in organising members for terror activities was "found from the mobiles of the arrested perons," the ATS spokesperson said.
The ATS had issued a look-out notice against Zaid, who is a native of Ghambirpur, Azamgarh in East Uttar Pradesh.
Police alleged that the members of the group would communicate with each other on the internet through an application and were preparing for a terror incident.
Zaid will now face charges under Sections 120 B, 121A, 153, 123 and 122B of the IPC and Section 18 of the UA(P)A along with the other four.
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