Cuttack District and Sessions Judge Court acquitted suspected terror accused Abdur Rehman after finding insufficient evidence in a case linked to alleged Al-Qaeda connections.
The verdict came nearly 11 years after Rehman’s arrest in December 2015. A joint team of Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Commissionerate Police and Delhi Police’s Special Cell had arrested him from Jagatpur, alleging his involvement with Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), an affiliate of the global terror network Al-Qaeda.
Investigators claimed Rehman recruited cadres for AQIS and radicalised youths. They alleged he operated a madrasa in Tangi where children from Jharkhand lived in poor conditions. Authorities also linked him to Mohammad Kafeel, who died during a failed terror attack at Glasgow Airport in 2007.
Police further alleged that Rehman travelled to Saudi Arabia and the UAE twice in 2015 and visited Jammu and Kashmir multiple times. Despite these claims, the court ruled that the prosecution failed to establish credible evidence.
