Samir Sardana, a 44-year-old man and a native of Dehradun,
has been arrested from Goa on suspicion of having links with terrorist outfits.
The man in question is a son of Major General and a Doon School alumni,
according to reports. The police have claimed that Sardana is a Hindu who
practices Islam. He is presently in custody of the Anti-terrorist Squad (ATS)
of Goa Police.
In shocking details that are emerging from investigations in
the case, Sardana had threatened to kill the two ticket examiners attached to
the Vasco railway station when he was occupying the dormitory at the railway
station during early Monday morning. This was revealed by the two ticket
examiners – Yogendra Rathi and Kuldeep Kumar on Wednesday. Rathi and Kumar have
filed a complaint with the Vasco railway police station against Sardana for
threatening them with dire consequences and also to kill them. The duo also
revealed that the ATS team had picked up Sardana on Sunday from the Vasco
railway station for his suspicious behavior but released him after questioning.
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Sardana was picked up from Vasco Railway Station after
railway authorities noted something suspicious about his activities. The
arrested person booked a dormitory room online from his laptop for three
consecutive times in the last week. After he was arrested, his suspected links
with the dreaded terror outfit Islamic State also came to the fore.
Sardana is a chartered accountant by profession and has been
associated with several MNCs like Accenture, and had worked in Hong Kong,
Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. When the police arrested the Dehradun-based youth,
he was carrying a laptop, five passports and four mobile phones.
ATS sources have revealed that the officials have come
across some letter and emails of Sardana, “which are to be decoded and
which indicate that he had collected information of previous bomb blasts in the
country”. He was arrested under Section 41 of Criminal Procedure Code
(CrPC).
