Delhi Police arrest Odisha youth for links with terror outfit

BHUBANESWAR: Delhi Police have arrested a 22-year-old man from Bhubaneswar for suspected links with a terror outfit, an official statement said on Saturday.

The accused, identified as Sheikh Imran, a resident of Unit-6 area in Ganga Nagar locality, was arrested by a joint team of Odisha and Delhi Police on Friday for his alleged connection with anti-national activities, it said.

Imran came under the police scanner after a special cell of the Delhi Police picked up some youths in the national capital a week ago and scrutinised their social media posts, the statement said.

On the basis of interrogation of the youths and analysis of their social media posts, an Odisha link was found, and Sheikh Imran was apprehended, it said.

During further interrogation, it was found that Imran, an unemployed youth, was an active member of the radical group, it said.

Imran had come in contact with a closed group on social media, where radical religious content detrimental to national security was being shared, the statement said.

He was produced before the Bhubaneswar Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate Court and taken on a transit remand to the national capital.

A mobile phone, a laptop and other materials were seized from Imran's possession.