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Tribune News Service
New Delhi, January 12
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a 24-year-old youth in the Islamic State-inspired module ‘Harkat-Ul-Harb-e-Islam’ case.
Muhammad Absar, a resident of Meerut, was arrested by the NIA on late Thursday evening. He teaches at Jamia Hussainia Abul Hassan in Hapur. With this, 12 suspects have been arrested so far in connection with the case.
“Absar had visited three places in J&K in May and August 2018 along with another accused Iftekhar Sakib in connection with the terror conspiracy,” said an agency official. However, the NIA is mum about specific charges against him if whether he was collecting funds, recruiting boys or supplying arms to the reportedly ‘highly radicalised and self-trained’ module.
He was later produced in the Patiala House court which sent him to six-day NIA custody. The next date of hearing has been scheduled for January 18.
The probe agency, with the help of the UP Police, also carried out searches at three locations in Meerut and Hapur on Saturday.