"The police showed me a gun. They asked me where are the weapons?" said Bushra, wife of terror suspect Afzal.
It was 3 am when Bushra heard a loud knock at the apartment she lives in with her husband, Afzal, a software engineer. The men who entered, she said, proclaimed they were from the Delhi Police, but offered no proof of identity. Bushra told NDTV today that the men pointed a gun at her before taking Afzal away, handcuffed, for alleged links to ISIS.
"They showed me no identity, no papers at all, no search warrant, no arrest warrant. On what basis they are taking my husband? Nothing was disclosed to us," she said, describing her husband as "very, very innocent."
Four men from Bengaluru have been arrested last night, part of a cross-country raid ordered by the National Investigation Agency or NIA to locate and question terror suspects.
Afzal is a software engineer. His wife works from home as an HR consultant. "I really don't know," she said when asked about when she expects to see her husband. Their four-year-old daughter kept near her as Bushra spoke to NDTV, dressed in a burkha and a headscarf.
"The moment they entered, they pounced on him how dogs pounce on a person. They started putting a gun on his forehead. They said they are from Delhi Police. They handcuffed him, they showed me a gun. They asked me, 'Where are the weapons?' I was shocked," his wife told NDTV today at her apartment building.
"The suspects are being interrogated by the NIA," said Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara.
The search for alleged ISIS sympathisers and affiliates comes after top security officers concluded a "very real" threat from the terror group ahead of Republic Day. French President Francois Hollande is the guest of honour for Tuesday's massive parade in the capital. ISIS claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks in November in which 130 people were killed.