Family won't accept a traitor's body, says Saifullah's father: 10 key points

Saifullah's father Sartaj Ahmed.

New Delhi: Father of Saifullah, the ISIS terror suspect killed in an anti-terror operation near Lucknow yesterday, said on Wednesday that his family “won’t accept the body of a traitor.”

• "He never worked. Once I had to hit for not doing anything in life. He left the house one day and said he is going to Mumbai. He said he will get a visa there for a foreign country.  We are simple people. A traitor can't be our son. We are Indians, we were born here, and our ancestors were born here. One who indulges in anti-national activities can't be our son... we won't accept his body," Sartaj Ahmed said. Ahmed said he had no idea about his son's involvement in terror activities.

 

• Saifulla’s brother told reporters that while the encounter was one, he spoke to him and insisted him to surrender.

 

• The terror suspect Saifullah was killed in an exchange of fire with the police. He is suspected to be linked with the blast in the Bhopal-Ujjain train yesterday, police said.

 

• The NIA will look into the items recovered from slain Saifullah's hideout in Haji colony in Thakurganj area, where he was killed by the Uttar Pradesh Anti Terrorism Squad in a 11-hour-long gunfight.

 

• According to police, six pistols of different make, two wireless sets, alarm clocks, steel pipes, an IS flag, two laptops, videos of how to make bombs, four knives, two passports and 600-plus live cartridges were recovered from the site.

 

• "We tried our best to capture him alive but were left with no other option," Inspector General (Special Task Force) Aseem Arun told the media while narrating the details of the incident.

 

• Intelligence agencies from two other states had tipped off the police of the likely presence of terror suspects in Lucknow, Kanpur and Etawah after an explosion took place in a train in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday.

 

• The gun battle broke out around 4 p.m. on Tuesday in Lucknow and continued for over 11 hours, concluding early on Wednesday.

 

• Two persons were arrested from Lakhna in Etawah, three from Kanpur and one was holed up in Lucknow, Arun said.

 

• Saifullah opened fire when the police reached the hideout to nab him.

 

• Faisal, a suspect, was arrested from Tiwaripur area in Kanpur and his elder brother Imran was arrested from Unnao. They are currently being interrogated by the ATS.

 

• Two others detained by the ATS in Kanpur were set free by a mob.