Ariz Khan alias Junaid, an engineer from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, who was facing terror charges, has been arrested by the Special Cell of Delhi Police from the Indo-Nepal border, police said on Wednesday.
Junaid, who carries a reward of Rs 10 lakh announced by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), is facing charges of involving in serial blasts in Delhi, Varanasi, Jaipur and Uttar Pradesh.
He had managed to flee during the Batla House encounter in Delhi 10 years ago.
According to NIA, he was closely associated with the Bhatkal brothers - Yasin and Iqbal - who co-founded the Indian Mujahideen.
The 32-year-old's arrest by the Delhi Police's Special Cell comes three week after the elite anti-terror force apprehended another suspected IM operative Abdul Subhan Qureshi (46), a software engineer, from east Delhi after a brief gun battle.
The NIA had filed a case against Junaid and 11 others, including the Bhatkal brothers, in September 2012 for entering into a conspiracy to wage war against the country.
Junaid's name figures in the chargesheet the agency filed in a special court in September 2014.
Altogether, the NIA has pressed charges against 33 suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorists.
According to the NIA chargesheet, Junaid is one of the "principal conspirators and executioners" of various "heinous terrorist acts in different parts of India along with Bhatkal brothers, Amir Reza Khan, Tahsin Akthar and Azadullah Akthar.


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