Gorakhpur Attack News Today

The accused in the Gorakhnath Temple attack case was in touch with the fighters and sympathisers of the proscribed terror outfit Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), said Prashant Kumar, Additional director general of police (Law and Order), UP.

Who is Ahmad Murtaza Abbasi, the IIT grad accused in Gorakhnath Temple attack - Based on reports, Abbasi has earlier worked as a corporate professional in Reliance Industries and Essar Petrochemicals.

The UP Police team in its initial probe found out that the accused Murtaza Abbasi, a Gorakhpur resident, had not met his family members for the last three years.

Gorakhnath temple attack part of terror plot? Here’s what UP Police said - Police personnel was attacked in the Gorakhnath Temple in Uttar Pradesh, leading to the police calling it a serious conspiracy.

An IIT graduate attacked two policemen with a sharp weapon outside the Gorakhnath temple in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur and tried to break into the temple while raising religious slogans last evening, before he was overpowered by a crowd.

The accused tried to forcibly enter the Gorakhnath temple premises on Sunday after raising the religious slogan of "Allahu Akbar".

The accused tried to forcibly enter the temple premises on Sunday after raising the religious slogan of "Allahu Akbar".

The police said that the attack may have been an act of terrorism and that investigators would look at the possibility of a larger conspiracy.