A Delhi Police Crime Branch team today arrived in Azamgarh for the verification of the two alleged Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives — Ariz Khan alias Junaid (23) and Shahzad Ahmed (20) — before initiating the procedure for the attachment of their properties.

The police team led by an inspector visited the property registrar office and city tehsil office in Azamgarh to verify the details of the assets related to the addresses of the two accused. They would be staying in Azamgarh till Wednesday evening.

The team had procured the property attachment order against Ariz and Shahzad from the Additional Chief Metropolitan (ACM) court, Delhi, on April 20.

But, the procedure could not be initiated as Ariz’s aunt Anjum Sahar and Shahzad’s grandfather Niyaz Ahmed had moved separate applications before the same court on April 25 challenging the proceedings of the property attachment. They had said that the named accused do not own the properties on the addresses mentioned in the order.

The magistrate, Naveen Arora, while accepting the applications, had asked the Delhi Police to verify the documents of the ownership of the properties filed by the applicants.

The court had set June 4 as the deadline for the verification process.

Ariz’s uncle Dr Fakhr-e-Alam said, “The Delhi Police team has arrived here for verification as they had failed to meet the deadline of June 4. Now, the court has extended the time till July 20 to receive the documents from the police.”