Abdullah Danish was wanted in connection with a sedition and unlawful activity case registered in 2001

Clarion India

NEW DELHI – A 58-year-old man, who the Delhi Police claimed was an alleged member of banned group Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), was arrested here on Sunday. Police detained Abdullah Danish at New Friends Colony. He has allegedly been on the run for the last 19 years and wanted in connection with a sedition and unlawful activity case registered in 2001.

Police claimed he allegedly motivated two terrorists who planned and executed a series of blasts in Ahmedabad in 2008.

“Danish was arrested by a team led by inspector Shiv Kumar, which had been receiving information of his movements in various cities of UP, Delhi-NCR for over a year. They received information that Danish was radicalising youth to mobilise them against NRC and CAA, and was propagating hardcore radical ideology to create disharmony among religious groups. He was falsely propagating atrocities being committed upon Muslims by the government using fake videos,” said DCP (special cell) Pramod Singh Kushwah.

An FIR was registered in 2001 against Danish when the government had banned SIMI.

Danish, who did his MA in Arabic from Aligarh Muslim University in 1985, used to be the editor of the Hindi edition of SIMI’s magazine.