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Cops arrest two youth, suspected harbourers of ISIS
According to reports 25 persons were arrested across the country, including six people in Karnataka in a pre-dawn action jointly conducted by NIA, Anti Terrorist Squads (ATS) of different states and the State police
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Confirming the arrests, Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara said six people were arrested on charges of supporting or harbouring the terror organisation and they were being interrogated by the officials. Police sources said the intelligence agencies and ATS of the Mumbai Police and State police under the direction of NIA, after tracking their activities in the social media, arrested them.
While four arrests were made in Bengaluru, one each suspect was picked up from the Port city of Mangaluru and Tumakuru respectively. Those arrested in the last two named cities were identified as Nazmul Hudah (25) and Syed Hussain (25). While the former was a engineering course drop-out, the latter was a fruit merchant.
Sources said the duo were arrested following the leads gained by similar arrests made in Delhi and Mumbai and the duo's contact which those arrested earlier through social media, Skype. Â It was alleged that the ISIS handlers had come in contact with them after their social media postings were tracked from them and they influenced to support the terror organisation and also offered to invite them to Syria.
Nazmul, studied BE before being a drop-out in a reputed engineering college in the city, was arrested from his house at Parmude near Bajpe in Mangaluru and Hussain was arrested from his modest residence near Gumchi circle in Tumakuru.
Dr Parameshwara said four others were picked up from different places in the city. They were arrested from areas like Madiwala, Chamarajapet and Jakkasandra.
Sources said the arrests were made following the information provided by a Moulvi Syed Ansar Shah Khazmi, who was arrested in the city last month. In a similar action, the investigating agencies had arrested two suspected terror operatives in Gulbarga and a IT professional in the city during the last few months.
IS suspect arrested in Thane
An IS suspect has been arrested from Mumbra in neighbouring Thane district in a joint operation of Maharashtra Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) and National Investigating Agency (NIA). ATS sources said yesterday, ''we have arrested a person from Mumbra area in Thane district, on suspicion that he might have link with IS.'' A high alert has been sounded in the district and other parts of the state, keeping in view Republic day celebration on January 26. Investigating team has launched a search operation in Mumbra and Kalyan area to ascertain whether any other person is in touch with the terror outfit, sources added. Â
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