Overview

• Ajmal Ali was arrested in Lucknow on August 1 under Sections 148 and 152 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and remanded to judicial custody.
• Interrogation of Ali led ATS officers to Dr Usama Maj Sheikh, who was apprehended from his Badlapur homoeopathy clinic on August 4 and placed in transit remand.
• The plotters used a Pakistan-linked WhatsApp group called “Reviving Islam” with over 400 members and exchanged extremist plans on Instagram and Signal.
• Authorities say the duo aimed to incite communal discord and enforce Ghazwa-e-Hind by overthrowing India’s elected government and imposing Sharia law through violent jihad.
• Investigators are now scrutinizing seized phones and chat logs to identify and locate additional operatives in the transnational network.